My misadventures as a single creative writer in the Mother City
Kids, in the winter of 2019, your Nan was facing a potential huge health crisis and while I knew I could and would support her as I had through two heart attacks, a stroke and bell’s palsy, I also wanted to take the time to appreciate her. She’s a tough one, your Nan. She survived […]
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Kids, on the eve of my 32nd birthday, I was feeling particularly thankful for all of my many, many blessings and it made me feel a little bit nostalgic. I started thinking about the very best birthday gifts I’d received over the last few years and here are my top 5: The gift of a […]
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Kids,in December 2016, I travelled alone to New York City and people,who should have known better,kept asking why? Them : “Why would you do that? And alone too? That’s crazy!” Me (thinking it internally but I should have said it out loud): “I’m f***ing off to the other side of the world because I am […]
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“I hear babies crying, I watch them grow They’ll learn much more than I’ll never know And I think to myself what a wonderful world Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world” – Louis Armstrong Kids, I really hate the date 23 November. It’s the date in 2015 when we were told your […]
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Kids, on the eve of my 31st birthday, I was feeling overstimulated, overwhelmed and over-stressed by social media. Besides the fact that it was literally my bread and butter, just trying to stay up to date with everything that was happening out in the digital world and my loved ones ‘social lives was incredibly tiring. […]
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Kids, by the spring of 2016, my cosplaying obsession was in full swing and with my all-time favourite holiday of the year, Halloween, coming up, there was just one more character I simply had to inhabit: the Zombie Bride of the Mother City at the Zombie Walk Cape Town 2016 event. Your Uncle Leon laughs […]
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Being different in a world of sameness and sheep-like mentality is nothing to be ashamed about. I am, I was and I will always be weirdly different and it is more than okay – it is my damn birth right!
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Kids, as my *gasp* 31st birthday edged closer in 2016, I started reflecting on what being 30 meant to me and realised that I actually loved it. I know that I freaked out pretty badly about my milestone age the year before, but by the winter of 2016, I had chilled the f*** out long […]
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I have a particular soft spot for the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel since my run-in with the Swedish love of my life there so when I spotted the Afternoon Bliss package on their Librisa Spa menu (a delicious combo of hour long massages followed by their decadent High Tea), I knew that that is exactly what we needed.
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Your Spirit Mom Leo, lovely mermaid Emma and I had to complete quite the rigorous process to get our golden tickets to Hogwarts aka Exclusive Books ‘party at the Canal Walk Shopping Centre – I mean, seriously, with the amount of hoops we had to jump through just to score an invitation, I practically had to give one of you up before you were even born…
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