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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Kids, in the lead up to Women’s Day 2018, I matched with a visiting American tour guide, Mike*, on Tinder. After a brief hello, how are yous , how’s your day going and a “Your gorgeous” (I’d over looked his atrocious spelling when I really shouldn’t have!) compliment, Mike asked me out for drinks and […]
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Kids, in the winter of 2018, I decided to give online dating one more shot (yes, I know, how many f***ing times have you heard that one before?) with the Bumble app. This one, unlike the others, gave women the option of making the first move without any shame – as in, in order for […]
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“You seem like a sweet and amazing person and I just had to speak to you…”, he said, his light blue eyes twinkling in the afternoon sunlight. I blushed prettily and thanked this kind and soft-spoken cute guy on the bus for his compliment: “You’re too kind, sir.Thank you for being brave enough to talk […]
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Kids, a huge part of why I took so long to meet your father was because I had experienced most of my dalliances a long, long time before then. Today, I’ll tell you about my brush with preteen romance… 1998… I was 12 and experiencing my second real crush … His name was Shafiek and […]
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Kids, on Valentine’s Day in 2017, I found #LoveAtFirstBite with Dunkin Donuts… Ok, fine, I fell in love with their quirky heart shaped offerings BUT I also experienced a resurgence of faith in the speed dating industry after attending the Dunkin Donuts ‘#LoveAtFirstBite speed dating event on Monday 13 February, 2017. I know I said […]
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By The Jax Blog @thejaxblog So it’s that time of year again and you find yourself Bridget Jonesing through life, do you stay at home and hide or do you celebrate? As tempting as it is to stalk your crush’s profile for the umpteenth time…don’t do it for the love of your own sanity. You […]
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“Say you’ll share with me one love,one lifetime /Say the word and I will follow you” Kids,as my solo trip to New York came to an end in early January 2017, I was no where near ready to say goodbye to the Big Apple. More importantly, I wasn’t ready to take my leave of the […]
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I didn’t even bother responding because a) he was not the Swedish god I want (Alexander Skarsgard shall forever be my one and only) and b) idiots and perverts aren’t worth my precious time … F*** it, NEXT!
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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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