Crawling is the Journey
Speak your truth. Now that sounds like a plan that came together. The sort of thing you can say to your momentarily needy best friend. That Eureka moment, where your wisdom outweighs anything, the universe may want to contribute. But, to speak the truth, as much as I like the phrase, I had no idea […]
Knysna. Now that is a town I have not been to in an awfully long time. Our last trip to Knysna was around 2000/1. Our boys were young, and we wanted to give them the experience of a plane, a train, a boat and an automobile. So, we flew down, landing at George Airport. From […]
In case you have not noticed, I love music. However, as with mankind, not all music is equal. For no specific reason at all, I do not like Whitney Houston. It is just something about her music. It has me changing radio stations. I would rather sit through twenty-five minutes of Mongolian Throat Singing, than […]
Adulting is described as behaving in a way characteristic of a responsible adult, especially the accomplishment of mundane but necessary tasks. Millennials coined this term. To them, it means paying the bills, keeping the house clean and keeping a job. All those things their parents used to do for them, and they took for granted. […]
Isn’t it funny, how sometimes one could be doing something completely random, and then out of nowhere, a memory of the past pops into your head. No problem with that at all, if it is a good or pleasant memory. That is one of the benefits of being a mother. You can randomly remember chubby […]
Hout Bay is one of those dorpies. Somehow it is not quite what it seems. It reminds me a bit of that long-awaited heir that is born. The Crawly -Smiths will claim that he has Grandpapa’s high forehead, and the Dr. & Mrs. Wilson Stevens will snugly comment on his intelligent little eyes. And then, […]
At 50, everyone has the face they deserve, said George Orwell. He also said, reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Aging gracefully is also such a loaded statement, almost like it is telling you that to age gracefully you need to be Sophia Loren, and if you are not, there will be […]
Op die groot saai dag van die heelal (On the big day of seed planting) Het reeds ‘n entjie duskant Wupperthal (Just beyond Wupperthal) Oor die kaal Noordweste (Across the barren Northwest) ‘n sakkie van die Here se beste (a small packet of the Lord’s best seed) Saad per ongeluk gelek, gelek en uitgeval (Accidently […]
What does Queen Elizabeth and Freddy Mercury have in common, apart from both being Queens, that is? Actually, quite a bit. Both have had to navigate around complex relationships at some point. Freddy Mercury chose the song Bohemian Rhapsody as his platform to “come out” as gay. This was his “spill the beans” song. Poor […]
I am an addict. I am addicted to chocolate, cappuccino, cheesecake and, thanks to Eskom and load shedding: TED Talks. You see, they (Ted Talks) are quick to download on YouTube, and the talks are generally not too long (so you can even sit through a bad one), and invariably, interesting. Topics can range from […]