by 2summers | Dec 6, 2023 | Brixton, Johannesburg, The Melville/Brixton Cats
I was ambivalent about writing this post. The last time I wrote about Brixton — a cat named after a suburb — was in December 2022, a few weeks after she walked into our lives. Now I’m writing to memorialize her, just a year later, and a part of me...
by 2summers | Oct 30, 2023 | Johannesburg, Sports
I know nothing about rugby. In 13 years of living in South Africa I’ve attended only one live rugby match. But I know a lot about sports and I know a lot about people. And I know that Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final between South Africa and New Zealand...
by 2summers | Dec 18, 2021 | Emotions
For the past couple of months, I’ve been thinking about what to write in my blog for the ten-year anniversary of Jon’s death. Jon died a decade ago tomorrow. Jon hanging out with the locals on a remote mountaintop in Lesotho, September 2010. For those who...
by 2summers | Oct 7, 2021 | Brixton, Emotions, Johannesburg
Last week I moved from Melville, the central Joburg suburb where I’ve lived for the past 11 years, to Brixton, another central Joburg suburb about five minutes away. Here I am in a Brixton alleyway not far from my new house. I didn’t realize until...
by 2summers | Jul 30, 2021 | COVID-19, Emotions
I feel anxious and uncertain about life right now. I could go into it — write out a long list of reasons, empathize with all the other people out there who are feeling a similar way (I know there are many), etc. But I don’t feel like doing that so here is...