I don’t think there are any rules. Just fall in love with writing. I just sent this message to an acquaintance. I think it’s true. Really, I’m turning up because I haven’t been here in a while. This month I started writing a book. About […]
The tide will turn. All my life it has been going out, taking everything precious with it, even the things that dragged their feet like stubborn children. Years, years, the undertow has been roaring, sucking its teeth at the sand, spitting out beautiful shells, dirtying […]
Protection. Or, as my phone decided by typo, Pride Room. Lions in all their splendour.
All along I thought I was supposed to come here. Meeting Laban and Alice when I was five or six years old. Marrying a Ugandan, although I didn’t know he was, to start with. Loving South Africa; assuming Uganda would forge the same connection. And […]
Don’t envy what you weren’t prepared to pay for. ***** 17 years earlier They think I’m stupid. Naïve. Dumb. She actually asked if it was the first time I’d had sex. Ha. If only. “Maybe this Lazaro raped her?” “We admire your courage” and other […]
I want to write about Ruth. Her name means “Mercy”, and the book of Ruth is all about mercy. Ruth is a foreigner, whose husband is dead. She comes from her home country of Moab with her mother-in-law Naomi, to Bethlehem, which is where Naomi […]
I just published the first episode of my new podcast! Listen to Think Speak Run Podcast on Anchor
I pray he doesn’t get COVID-19. I just thought spoonerizing his name was funny!