These days the world is seen increasingly—by white right-wingers—as split between ‘those who belong’ and ‘those who don’t belong’. This…
In Natalie Conyer’s novel debut, PRESENT TENSE—the first book in the Schalk Lourens Mystery series—veteran cop Schalk Lourens wants a…
I forget sometimes that we’re still in a state of National Disaster, here in South Africa. At other times the…
“Mom,” said my teenage son, Al, on Saturday morning, “it sounds like a pre-teen party happening in the kitchen.” Listening…
As for losses, where do I start? My tendency is to drag along the losses like my own road-kill roped…
I stepped over the threshold. She was ready. Smiling. Her arms stretched out. I stopped, stood, petrified as a Pompei…
My head has been particularly ADD… flipping from one idea to the next… hardly finished typing a sentence before another…
I heard on the radio that today is Panic Day, a day to acknowledge the stress in our bodies, the…
I’ve done quite a bit of Zooming, over the past few months, enjoyed and learned from every meeting and webinar,…
Some people (including my late mother) would not be seen dead in their pyjamas. I, on the other hand, these…
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