My misadventures as a single creative writer in the Mother City
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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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, in the autumn of 2017, I was having a very bad week of adulting. As in epic, end-of-the-world bad… not only did I get swindled out of A LOT of money by Gumtree scammers (the buggers ran off with the mobile phone I was selling after sending me a very real looking bank deposit […]
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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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“Oh my Gawd! I thought the restroom was empty …Sorry!” Kids, this is what a gorgeous, blonde American yelled at me as I stood, pants around my ankles in the middle of trying to close the damn unisex loo door at Applebee’s in New York … I had, quite stupidly in my haste to relieve […]
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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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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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“Good Morning, Sleeping Beauty! Was that as good for you as it was for me?” he asked, with a smirk. Kids, this was the line I woke up to on a plane in Istanbul in November 2010, from the gorgeous guy whose personal space I had totally invaded during the long haul flight from Johannesburg. […]
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Kids, at times when the search for your father seemed to come to a complete stand still, it was good to get out of Cape Town and have some fun (and go where there was sure to be hot, single men …we hoped!). Luckily for your god mom Marisa and I, we were invited to […]
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I got so flustered by how hot Wes was, I managed to walk into a door, knock into an open gate, drop my phone and blush so profusely, I looked like a dragon had scorched me – all in the space of 10 minutes.
Earth, swallow me whole!
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