I constantly observe social behaviour – mostly without realising I’m doing it.
Posts in this category are my ‘thinking out loud’ about the way people do things.
(This is another piece I wrote at my friend Emily’s writing workshop. We were given a subject & object by one of the other group members, & 15 minutes to write about it. Oceans Apart was the first of these.) Oh I could hide ‘neath the wings of the blue bird as she sings… the…
I recently did a creative writing workshop; one of our tasks was to look at a picture assigned to us, & then freewrite (just respond & write what came to mind without overthinking) for 15 minutes. In the spirit of the exercise, & all things New Year, which for me involves NO perfectionism – I…
My body fought a war against me for the first 6 weeks after we arrived in Australia. First jetlag then hay fever; knocked down by flu only to recover to incessant sneezing & leaky washers on my eyes. A rash all over my face made the constant meeting of new people arduous, even for an…
I learned to read over my big brothers shoulder when I was really quite little. At three I sounded out cos-mo-po-li-tan unprompted while waiting for mom to unpack the groceries at the till, and I have barely stopped reading since. There was the year after I graduated from UCT, where I just spaced out a…
