Your memory can play games with you, if you give it enough time. In my mind it was always four Ford Capris – three red and one light blue, and four boys named Chris. But now, when I sit down to capture the story in a paper net, I can only remember the names of […]

There’s no way around this: the opposite of apartheid is togetherness.

It doesn’t happen often enough. It’s just a birthday. But it’s a pivotal juncture that brings a very specific group of us together. Let me colour it in a little: it’s 5.45pm and I’m snatching a longed-for cigarette on the pavement in Adderley Street. Today is S’ birthday – she’s picking me up and we’re […]

I really miss writing. Sure, I’m writing copy and I love my job, and I’m active on social media platforms, but that’s more like talking. What I miss is taking these long intro-and-extraspective rambles through my own thoughts and conclusions; it’s been too long. But this is probably the best way through writer’s block: getting […]

A thought bubble has been forming for a while – today it rose to the surface and broke. I started to remember the things that I hated about racism and prejudice as a child, teen and as a young adult. I hated how racism made people so lazy mentally – it was too easy to […]

November 28, 2007 – 18:18 — Joanne I don’t really know if it’s the same today, but when I was a kid our play really was practice for our adult lives. Because we moved in fluid packs of anything from 3 to 20 kids – depending on the season, activity and who was fighting with, […]

Monet’s ponds, Blake’s wherries; Waites’ piano, Neruda’s cherries; ee cummings’ winter, Keats’ Fears; Shakespeare’s desire, Tennyson’s Tears – I’m stumbling between the feet of giants.

The world is full of concerned citizens doing their bit to make it a better place – for every 100 abusers there has to be at least one idealist beavering away to make a difference. But I think that we can do more. By now we have most of issues covered – everything from dolphins […]

This is an old story about a new case – well, an old and a new case. Really – I am not making this up… Let’s make this movieThu 2 Jun 2011, 14:47 Imagine for a moment: you’re bored with everything else on TV and you’ve found one of those lone-cop-busting-corruption films on an obscure […]

Bear with me – just for five minutes. I’m skidding in under the closing garage door here; I know that everyone’s attention span regarding rape is shutting down, but I have something, a last minute-delivery. See, we’ve heard the horror, the shouting, the spats that have broken out on the edges of the crowd as […]