My friend, Rebecca, who has written before on my blog - a message to South Africa over here, and about her journey with dyslexia over here - wrote this as a status update the other day: Dear racist old man on the Pavilion escalator. I'm sorry you smashed your phone screen and that it's going to cost you R4000 to fix. But you don't have to call the salesman you talked to that [insert derogatory name] [...]
"THAT... IS COMPLETE AND UTTER... RUBBISH!" D muttered, before slamming the door on his way out. B hated his roommate! Oh sure, it had seemed like a good idea at the time. Move in with Death? Everyone had been completely jealous. What in the world could be more exciting than that? And to be honest, in the beginning it had been. The thrill of watching the sand slowly pouring through the hourglasses. Sneaking a quick peek [...]
Martha, like Tsholo and Dre, was someone else who shared some thoughts in the comments section of the 'What about Bob?' conversation and i didn't want her words to be missed so i asked her to expand it into a longer post and here it is: [I am a young Black South African lady, working in a male dominant industry and studying towards my Bcom Degree. Very much active member of the society and believing [...]
My friend Dre [actually Andrea Thorpe] has been commenting at various places in the 'What about Bob?' conversation and so i asked her if she'd be up to sharing some thoughts of her own... [I’m a white, English-speaking South African. I was born in the Eastern Cape in the ‘80s. I studied Journalism and Media Studies and English at Rhodes University, and later completed my Masters in English at Stellenbosch. I’m now roughly halfway through [...]
If you composed a highlight reel from your life, i wonder for how many of you Richard Branson would make an appearance. Well he does for me, and actually as i was putting this together i remembered it was actually on two very different occasions… […]
So those of you who follow my blog will be aware that i received an email from a friend who wanted to remain anonymous but was wrestling with some questions and issues as a white South African who is currently living overseas but looking in. i published Bob's email over here. i then invited some of my friends to respond and so far Alexa [white woman], Marlyn [coloured guy] and Tsholo [black woman] have shared [...]
Many years ago, i went to visit two of my greatest plutonic girl friends, Sam Gardyne and Debbie Payne. i met them at a Baptist Youth Summer Camp in Kimberly and for some reason we just clicked and they became two of my favourite people in life, and remained that way for ever, despite us hardly ever getting enough time to see each other. But about once a year […]
i have lived [and continue to live] a full life… The other day i posted about how my wife organised Black Widow and Hulk costumes so that we could watch the new Avengers: Age of Ultron movie dressed up. i also returned home from my trip to Durban to find that she had discovered an old stack of photos from my life with some really crazy hairstyles and some crazier life moments documented right there [...]
Every now and then i will post a status on Facebook or the Twitterer that starts with the words 'Sometimes love looks like...' Which will then go on to mention something [large or small] that my wife, tbV [the beautiful Val, yes folks the 'b' does not stand for 'lovely'!] has done for me as a way of celebrating her more publicly. The latest one looked a little something like this: Sometimes love is walking [...]
For those of you who have been following the book launch tour we have now had four different launches: one at Vovo Telo and one at the Warehouse in Cape Town, one out Stellenbosch way and recently another in Durban. What i have discovered along the way is that my favourite part at every single launch was the Q & A time we scheduled in the middle of it. Opportunities for people [...]