When I went to Vietnam earlier this year we took a ‘non touristy’ bike ride in the Mekong Delta. I am a very good bike rider where there are long stretches of flat surface, no turns, no cars, no people and no other cyclists. Also no onlookers. Or changes in…

‘If you are travelling with a child or someone who requires assistance, secure your mask first, and then help the other person.’ The gently authoritative voice fills the cabin as I watch the yellow mask drop from the flight attendant’s outstretched hand. ‘Pull the mask sharply, cover your nose and…

I don’t think I heard the word menopause until I was an adult. In the 1970’s and 80’s menopause wasn’t spoken about in the public domain (or in my home). We grew up watching ads for tampons that showed women in long, white dresses frolicking through flowery meadows. …

When I first read the word fexting I worried it was some kind of weird phone sex thing that began with an ‘f’. After a few unpleasant moments wondering how that would work and how fexting would be different from sexting I braced myself and read on. …

It had been 18 years since I’d been back to Johannesburg. And honestly, I didn’t miss it. I left South Africa happily, eager to start again in a new country where I didn’t have a million bad memories and I wasn’t scared all the time. But there were things I…

Yesterday a stranger at a café made me cry. It’s not the first time I’ve cried for because of strangers, hell it probably wasn’t the first time I cried that day. …

I love to read, I love to write and I love to write about reading. What I’m not very good at is intense analysis. If you’ve read any of my book reviews you know I don’t go hard into metaphor, meaning and symbolism. …

There are a number of problems I have with my hypochondria, especially while living through a pandemic. Other than the obvious fear I have Covid all the time, it’s hard to admit to being a hypochondriac when I could have the actual virus. I have a textbook case of hypochondria…

If mother’s groups were to give out most-likely awards, I would have been awarded Mother Most Likely To Keep Her Child In A Bunker During A Pandemic . I am that type of mother — a neurotic catastrophist who thinks like a doomsday prepper. Luckily for me I married very…