Blog : Brett Fish

How to Lose a Friend in Ten Ways – part Early Responder

This is a tough one for me. i feel like i can probably get over whatever other friend-losing behaviours i share after this one, but this one just feels so incredible rude, that i would struggle. Immediate downgrade to acquaintance or person-i-walk-away-from-quickly-when-i-see-you-heading-my-way feels fair. Does that seem too harsh? Maybe you've never known someone who does it. i am thinking of one person in particular. Really nice person. Quality. And so a number of years [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-09T10:20:53+02:00September 9th, 2015|friends and enemas|10 Comments

How to Lose a Friend in Ten Ways – Intro

If you have a good friend you're trying to get rid of... oh wait, that only happens in the movies, right? Well how about a friend you want to keep or make? From time to time i hear people complaining that they don't have any close friends as if the Close Friend Fairy has passed them by [Did you put your old friends under your pillow?] As cheesesome as it may seem, i believe it's [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-09T09:52:49+02:00September 9th, 2015|friends and enemas|8 Comments

Micropoem: coffee

coffee i know that i don't need you at all i tell myself as i reach for my next cup [For more of my Micropoetry, click here]

By brettfish|2015-09-08T11:09:11+02:00September 8th, 2015|poems and other creativity|1 Comment

Taboo Topic: Cancer – Journeying with Aaron [Testicular Cancer] – Part The Cooler Side of Chemo

Continuing to share some of the stories from the archives of Aaron Fullerton to be found in full on his blog, 'Aaron Laughs With Cancer', and in this one Aaron takes some time during the chemo, to mention some things he is appreciative of during what is a tough and scary journey: THE COOLER SIDE OF CHEMO I’m typing with my left hand because my right is hooked up to an IV that’s pumping me [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-07T14:59:47+02:00September 7th, 2015|inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments

The Difference Being i Don’t See Dead People…

We can all remember that iconic moment from the Bruce Willis/Haley Joel Osment thriller 'The Sixth Sense' and if you have not seen it yet, then be warned of the biggest spoiler of all. The face of Cole Sear peeking out from behind the safety of his blanket as he whispers the iconic, "I see dead people!" i feel like that on a far-too-regular basis on The Facebook as i read statuses of people negative [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-07T10:57:07+02:00September 7th, 2015|change the world, heroes or heroic moments, inspire-ations, local news, pain and Hope|4 Comments

Taboo Topic: Cancer – Journeying with Aaron [Testicular Cancer] – part Laughing With not At

The first of our Aaron Fullerton journey stories was published two years ago and is reblogged with permission: The original title: Laughing With Cancer, Not At It: When Lance Armstrong fell from grace a few weeks ago, I didn’t really care. I’ve always appreciated him for the icon he is, for the modern miracle of his health and success, but when I think of Lance Armstrong, I think of three things: bracelets, Michelob Ultra, and [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-04T10:24:00+02:00September 4th, 2015|inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|2 Comments

Taboo Topic: Cancer – Journeying with Aaron [Testicular Cancer] – Intro

This is going to be a little bit of a different one. i 'met' Aaron online, as much as you can 'meet' anyone online [i think you can] and i don't even remember how although it might have been through Hashtag Game tweets or some other comedy moment. And we got chatting, which is a little strange for strangers on Twitter. And especially when it turned out that one of the strangers is a writer [...]

By brettfish|2016-12-02T16:50:34+02:00September 4th, 2015|inspire-ations, pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, thorts of other people|4 Comments

Taboo Topics: Race – What I would love my white friends to hear – Meet Juliet Paulse

Growing up in Cape Town in a largely coloured area, the perceptions about white and black people were always negative. So naturally I took that on as the norm (as that was my context). I was only in high school when I was first exposed to white folks. All my teachers were white and they knew everything and seem to have everything. I basically unconsciously just ended up assimilating into that thinking that white must [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-03T06:54:26+02:00September 3rd, 2015|pain and Hope, Taboo Topics, things to wrestle with, thorts of other people|4 Comments

Xhosa and Effect

Ndiyavuya Ukukwazi. It means “no worries, for the rest of your life”. Oh no, wait, that’s something else. ‘Ndiyavuya ukukwazi’ is the Xhosa phrase i am trying to learn today, as tbV and myself and a roomful of others move into week two of our six week Xhosa class and attempt to get the basic conversationals under our belts. It is nice to meet you. i just thought that since this is such a significant [...]

By brettfish|2015-09-02T12:59:29+02:00September 2nd, 2015|activities, change the world, inspire-ations|2 Comments

Taboo Topic: Tantrums – Meet Kirby and Sean Greathead

So this post by my friend Sean’s wife, Kirby, is a little bit different [was an eye-opener for me] as it differentiates between Tantrums and Meltdowns and i would love to hear some response to this from other parents who have maybe never thought about this before. She posted this under the title ‘Moment on Meltdowns’ on her blog ‘Niggles and Giggles’ which i have links to at the end, so go and see what [...]