In Reykjavik, Iceland, earlier this year. Older, definitely wiser! This little blog of mine has been on my mind lately. A lot. I would imagine it feels like an abandoned dog, left out in the rain to fend for itself. But it wasn't really abandoned was it? Outgrown is probably a more accurate statement, but …
Kevin
I have been thinking of you so much lately Kev. The thought of "the anniversary of your death" rolling around in a few weeks fills me with absolute dread. Its a funny thing: I usually balk at people taking it upon themselves to commemorate awful occurrences; constantly bringing up all the old hurt and feelings …
I need to write
A friend pointed out to me the other day that I haven’t blogged in a while, and yes, it’s been close to two years. There is no excuse really, other than life getting in the way and a lack of real inspiration. And just like that, almost two years zoom by, and even WordPress has …
The trouble with being little
Barring the last week, Alex has been having a bit of a rough time since school started again this year. Being quite a reserved child, he sometimes struggles to fit in with the crowd. I can relate, because I was never really a mainstream kid. He has always been quite an intense child, we even …
Hello 2014
I'm definitely not superstitious, but I'm starting to think that there is something to this "unlucky number thirteen" thing. In a lot of respects 2013 was indeed a pretty unlucky year. There were many health challenges in my close family / friends. My dad was hospitalized in ICU for over a week with pneumonia and …
Is this a dream?
I started writing this post almost two weeks ago, amidst the craziest, most emotionally draining week of my life. I could not bring myself to hit publish, as if saying the words out loud made them real, and the real-ness of all this was something I was not quite ready for. The temptation to predict …
So this is 40
A few weeks ago, we watched a movie called This is 40. It's probably the funniest movie I have seen in a long time. Probably because of its appropriateness in terms of my turning 40 a few days afterwards. Whilst the movie is probably not everyone's cup of tea (there is quite a lot of swearing …
The magic of Christmas
To say that there was some excitement in our house for Christmas this year would be an understatement. Our Christmas tree was already up by mid-November, if that says anything (at which point I was being nagged on a daily basis to put it up, by my dear boy child). Alex only really got the …
Graduation Day
The Great Hall at Wits is an eye-catching piece of architecture; the centre-piece in a world-class educational institute, and a reminder of an era when Johannesburg was once a young city. Within its walls students celebrate their coming of age and the achievement of their degrees. Hopes and dreams of careers as Doctors, Lawyers, Scientists, Engineers and the …
Music, Chocolate and Surgery
The Easter weekend is typically a time when all inhabitants of the little province called Gauteng head en-masse down to Durbs. It is also usually when the temperatures up here on the escarpment tend to plummet into single figures on the thermometer, so it certainly makes sense to escape winter's grip for an extra few days! It …
Baby Makes Six 