by 2summers | Jul 1, 2021 | COVID-19, USA
Last week, just as the third wave of the pandemic was nearing a crescendo in South Africa, I boarded a United Airlines flight from Joburg to Newark, New Jersey. It wasn’t an ideal time to travel but I’d booked the flight several weeks earlier. It had been...
by 2summers | May 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Johannesburg, USA
Read all my lockdown journal posts. It’s Day 39 of the South African lockdown. I woke up late, supremely unmotivated, and spent much of the morning conducting a photoshoot with three horned melons (also called kiwanos, African horned cucumbers, spiked melons,...
by 2summers | Aug 31, 2011 | USA
My dad still lives in the house where my sister and I grew up. It’s in a quasi-rural part of Maryland, about an hour’s drive north of Washington D.C. and 40 minutes west of Baltimore. The house is at the top of a hill, at the end of a long driveway, in a tiny...