My misadventures as a single creative writer in the Mother City
Kids, in the winter of 2021, the truly awful, unexpected and unfair happened: we lost your vibrant, beautiful, feisty, larger-than-life Aunt Yolisa. She was only 41, far too young to be shuffling off of this mortal coil. While you have certainly heard the incredible story of How I Met Your Aunt Yoli over and over […]
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It was a cold November night and I was wandering through Times Square, having just sobbed my eyes out at a spectacular performance of the hit Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen… I stopped, twirled around in a circle and took in my surroundings. Still feeling emotional after my sobfest and raw in a way I […]
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Test tube: “Hey Beautiful. Do you come here often?” Me: ” Only when I’m trying to get knocked up by you.” Even in my f***ed up fantasies about conceiving you by sperm donation, I utterly sucked at flirting… Kids, in the winter of 2018, I was facing the very real and harsh reality that meeting […]
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Kids, I am no stranger to grief. Since my Dad died the week after my 11th birthday, I have been well accquainted with this gods-awful, sucks balls emotion. At age 32 and a half in 2018, though, I was f***ing done with it… DONE! See, just when I was regaining some semblance of a normal […]
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“Can I kiss you?”, he asked, and I nodded yes before he laid one on me…
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Kids, in December 2017, I gave myself permission to be the care-free person I am when I travel in Cape Town. The girl who… does crazy things like jump up on stage at a karaoke bar and belts out Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive while cold stone sober ( because throat infection and antibiotics!): View […]
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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, as you know Halloween is my absolute favourite holiday of the year… not least of all because it is when the undead rise in the Mother City for the annual Zombie Walk Cape Town event! My zombie personality had been everything from a cheerleader to a nurse to a bride so what to go […]
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Kids, in September 2017,my wandering heart (and very busy working body – wait… not like THAT!) found its way to the sensual and vibrant Buenos Aires, Argentina. Resting place of Evita, home to the empanada, the Japanese Botanical Garden and… tango! As I mentioned before, this was a business trip so there wasn’t much time […]
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Kids, on a cold Spring Saturday evening in Cape Town in 2017, I found myself waiting in gale force winds for yet another no-show online date. Joe (31) , a lawyer from Tinder, had aggressively pursued me online the week before and, after moving to Whatsapp, asked me out on a date. Safe for work […]
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