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. Imagine my surprise…

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. But there I was sitting at a corner table waiting for my coffee and toast and pretending to work…

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. I just read for the story/escape and…

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…

One of the best things about the end of the year is it’s the time when lists come out and I’m a sucker for a list. I love it when people itemise things for me and tell me what to read, cook, listen to — even wear. Naturally I gravitate…

When I was in primary school I wrote a book. I would love to follow that line with the story of my illustrious career as an author and let you believe that was the first of many published novels under my name, but the book I wrote was part of…

I’ve been very brave. During the last two years I’ve been quiet and accepting about lockdowns and border closures. I know nothing about deadly pandemics and what a country needs to do to protect its people so I watched and listened and I accepted that borders needed to close. I…