I’ve been putting this off for months, but (as is the way with procrastination), it just gets harder the longer you wait, so here goes with part one of the promised missive. It’s not been laziness, I promise – more disorientation and being overwhelmed, I guess. You all know me well enough to […]
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In January, February and March I spent a lot of time in coffee-shops trawling through want-ads – it sparked a little rant. Don’t hold me to any of this if you disagree. Love you… 😉 They call the work, the ideas, ‘offerings’ – as if the clients and users are greedy little idols with short […]
I got home to Alexa playing a 70’s R&B selection – someone probably asked for mellow mood music and there we were. Sorting out dinner, somewhere between the oven and the table, a memory ran through my head like a perfect short-reel film – here it is: I’m walking home on an early summer evening […]
There’s an ad pitching for people to write and submit short stories; the genre being dystopia. I’m attracted to this and think it over outside in the afternoon sun, but then mild panic sets in: either my imagination has failed or the reality of 2017 is already so dystopian that I don’t know where to […]
Thank you to all the hard-working journalists for keeping the SASSA mess front and centre – no matter how many sideshow-Bob crises appear to obscure it. And yes, the sideshow-Bob issues have some merit (why else would people pay attention to them?), but nothing current compares to the implications of this: legally, ethically and morally. […]
From spinning clouds out of random words I’ve now become someone, it seems, who herds reluctant phrases into tight little spaces were they live to dance out their tiny paces, earning some cents per each mobile minute – that’s all it’s about, that all that’s in it. And worst of all, my own personal hell: […]
Maybe this is what it feels like to start dating after being in a very long relationship: nervous, a bit unsure, wondering what to wear – just strange. But one has to get out there in order to live so let me just do this. Recruitment is not a science It’s probably the same for […]
It’s stupid, this thing where I circle the blank page as if it’s an enemy – why? This is easier than climbing back on a bicycle, this is nothing. I can put my fingers on these keys and watch the tune emerge in seconds. So, here I am, tickling the ebonies on a frosty Tuesday […]
Taking stock (2011) It’s Friday night, and this week she’s home alone – a momentous week is over, and there just wasn’t enough energy to chase a sunset drink on the edge of the harbour. But this is good, it’s what she needs – time to walk undisturbed through the streets of her mind, see what’s […]
I’m sitting a warm room flooded with sunshine. For those of you in 35° Cape Town, that may seem superfluous, but in Leeds we’ve just made it through hurricane/cyclone/typhoon Doris and a still, sunny day is one hell of a thing. Took a walk through a little wood along a gravel path to the doctors’ […]
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