2019 has ended up being a year of two flights.' It has ended up being a lot of other things to be honest - and many of them not very nice, definitely the most difficult year i can remember out of the last 45 - but on either end of it a flight. The year started with an almost-out-of-nowhere gift of a flight back to Oakland where tbV and i lived for a year [...]
Friday the 13th felt like a good date for putting my life in the hands of the Ford Driving Skills for Life team. Promised a range of activities from gravel track to skid pan to driving simulated under the influence of drink, drugs or distraction, a group of about 30 bloggers and influencers descended upon the Killarney race track in Tableview. If the welcome was anything to go by - we were greeted with [...]
these poems do not let themselves be written without lifting lids and disturbing the dead these poems are hauntings they could not live without bringing buried things back ghosts out of silence bearing witness these poems exist between worlds written out of mist and prayers and last breaths these poems have no respect for the living these poems are part of what remains of missing names these poems can never be a full story [...]
Black Friday is not something you would typically associate with a frozen yoghurt brand. But when has Marcel's every been one to follow the trends? [as demonstrated recently with their unicorn-flavoured frozen yoghurt] This time, however, they decided to get super creative and really sink their teeth [and ours] into this risky yet intriguing flavour - black charcoal-infused, chocolate-flavoured frozen yoghurt. Call in the troops We called up good friends Ashley and Helene [...]
The idea of 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children seems crazy to me. When what we obviously need is 365.25 days of Activism for No Violence against women and children. But i get it. Because of the state and nature of the extremes of violence that are happening towards women and children, just drawing some attention and mobilising as many people as possible for more of a bite-sized chunk [...]
This week i received the gift of a visit to the Saartjie Baartman Centre for Women and Children. Thanks to some work i have done alongside Fair Cape Dairies, they informed me of a collaboration they are launching next week with the centre. i connected with the director Bernadine Bachar and she agreed to meet with me to give me an idea of what the centre is about and how they do what they [...]
Do you have children who love Dr Seuss stories? Or maybe just any stories read out in a bad german accent and often shouted at the screen? Well, if this is you, you may just be in luck. My old friend, and alter ego, Erik [with a K!] who is known more for shouting people's favourite poems at the screen in bad german, is back. And this time he is armed with Dr Seuss... [...]
Christmas is always the one time of the year that brings joy to people. Well, some people. Which is why i want to invite you to join with me and others in rethinking Christmas. Let's be completely intentional and creative in the way we celebrate Christmas this year. And let's do it in a way that reaches more people and causes a lot less waste. Presents How often has Christmas become that pressure [...]
Either/Or vs Both/And What if we replaced the Either/Or way of thinking with something that looked a little more like Both/And? This is a thought that keeps coming back to me as i seek to use online spaces to inspire, challenge, encourage and build bridges between people who don't look like each other. When i speak about justice for black, coloured and indian people i get accused of hating white people. If i speak [...]
Dear Johan, That's not your real name. i'm pretty sure it isn't. Your comments don't strike me as the kind that would come from someone who uses their real name. And the email address is definitely not real. You logged into your computer and you clicked on a link that took you to my blog post and you scrolled down to the comments and with some amount of glee i imagine, you shared a [...]
