A Writing Holiday in Leisure Bay
I just returned to Joburg after a week in Leisure Bay, a seaside community on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. I went there to escape Joburg's cold, dry winter, and also to work on my [...]
A 2Summers Memoir Progress Report
A few months ago, I wrote in a blog post that I was finally working on writing my memoir. Like, for real this time. "I’ve started working on my memoir again, for real. I’ve set [...]
A New and Improved 2Summers Blog Course
I taught two one-day blogging courses last year, and they went really well. We met at Bridge Books, learned about blogging and social media, and photowalked around downtown Joburg. Everyone seemed to have fun [...]
Another Chance to Attend #2SummersBlogClass
Here I sit, in the Frankfurt Airport at 11:00 a.m., blogging. This airport offers excellent free wifi and I have a few hours to kill before my connecting flight to Washington D.C. How fortunate [...]
Wanna Be a Blogger? Come to My Course at Bridge Books
I'm not usually one to toot my own horn. But I'm a good blogger. (I'm not usually one to start my blog posts with clichés like "toot my own horn", either. But I'm trying [...]
Thoughts on Blogging, Working, and Making Money
I started this blog in June 2010 and named it 2Summers on a whim. I was moving from the United States to South Africa and I would experience two summers in the same year. Two summers, I thought...2 [...]
Confession: I’m an Artist
Last Friday, an artist named Amanda Palmer performed a show in Joburg at the Sheds @1Fox. Confession #1: I had no idea who Amanda Palmer was until a few days ago. Confession #2: I [...]
The Joburg Expat Climbs Kilimanjaro
*Photo above courtesy of Eva Melusine Thieme. Some of you will probably feel cheated when you open this, thinking that I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro myself. Sorry to disappoint you. While I am an adventurous person and I [...]