16.04.2018. Day 2191. You used to count the hours and the minutes and the seconds measuring out the chasm between…
Hungry For The Real Thing
Endless tides ebb and flow around sites profound and impossible towers, seeking out The Next Best Thing, the Perfect Angle,…
Coming Back
After all this time, I’m still making excuses for you
Stay of Execution
If only there was a reader. Just one…
Cow Farts and Calf Cramps: Surviving Your First Park Run
10 tips to help you survive your first Park Run
Life in the Laughter
I will find you again, in the smiles, laughter and love
A Lesson In Humanity
A battered wreck of a car follows me into the deserted parking at the secluded beach I sometimes visit. I…
Survivor: O.R. Tambo Airport
I’ve been here a long time.
Young Enough To Learn
A mere 5 hours into my 43rd birthday and I have already learned 3 very valuable lessons, proving this old…
Beach Running for Beginners
A complete guide to the things they never tell you about beach running, but that you’ll soon discover. As a…
And the beat goes on…
Johan ‘Junior’ Botha 1956.03.19 – 2016.07.24 My amazing, talented cousin! We were not ready to say goodbye. How could we…
The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life. Well, the meaning of MY life, really, is simply measured in friendships. It doesn’t need a…
It Wasn’t ALL Bad
The thing about the past is that it’s easy to see it ALL as bad, so that everything now is…
When Did We Get So Old…?
I’m scrolling through Facebook, catching up on what people got up to while I was at work. A photo of…
Mother’s Day
We miss you. I miss you. I miss your hugs and your smile and the way you made the world…
Thank You.
Yesterday I felt I was fast approaching my breaking point. I wrote it out, pouring my chaos onto the page,…
Breaking Point
Isolation. Locking myself away from the world when really all I want to do is lock myself away from myself,…
Why #RhodesMustFall, For Dummies
I haven’t weighed in on the debacle over whether or not the statue of Cecil John Rhodes must fall because,…
Are We Sports Fans, Or Bullies?
The Proteas have been knocked out of the Cricket World Cup again. With predictable dullness online media has erupted with…
Your Status Hijacking Game Is NOT About Cancer Awareness
“It’s confirmed! I’m going to be a daddy” reads a friend’s Facebook status update. So I click the ‘Like’ button…
Dancing With Sarah
I’ve just turned 41, and as ages go, it’s an odd one. It’s not an event like 40 was, and…
Dinner With Terry
There is a ritual in my home. Every night when dinner is served, my constant companion is opened to the…
RIP, Brave Hero
Sunday, 8 March 2015. I first saw the news of your death on Facebook, followed by the various news sites…
Chaos
We are all here, waiting for the event to start – me, you, people from years ago, like Maxine, and…
50 Shades Of Opinion
It’s just a film – just a fictional story – about two people involved in a relationship that includes a…
Divine Boredom
I have cleaned the dishes. I have done the shopping. There are blogs to write, but I can do that…
Desperately Seeking Sandman
At 3:15am I woke up, like I do every morning. Not from an alarm clock or strange noises, but because…
Excuse Me While I Grinch
It’s THAT day again, where the world falls over itself to remind me that I am single. I prefer to…
Little Meta Indulgences.
There are blogs to be written. Food posts. Paid posts. Blogs for other people’s blogs. Lots of writing to be…
Are Wives a Threat to Malls?
Our malls are under attack. Not from some terrorist organisation with an anti-capitalist ideology. Not from criminals. From wives. Yup.…
Share The Love!
Brett wrote a post that struck a chord with me. In ‘Let There Be Good!‘ he talks about all the…
And Now For Last Year’s Tired Old News…
“Go F**k Yourself, Cape Town!” wrote Jade Mitchell in 2014. The next day, mysundaymorningpiss riposted with “A Capetonians (sic) response…
Weep
My third therapy session today was not as difficult as my second one; we talked about loss, and death and…
Breaking Down The Walls
In memoriam: George Charles Luis 1931-11-23 — 1987-12-28 Every year I write something on the 28th of December, ostensibly to…
Love Change
…I will deal with it. Because it all works out, in the end…
See a bit of Rob van Vuuren’s What What
Rob van Vuuren is Twakkie, of ‘Corné and Twakkie and The Most Amazing Show’ fame. He’s also a standup comedian…
Found & Lost
“Hey Dave, how are you? Is tomorrow still open for you 😀?” This message came through from Rokela at 4:44PM,…
Perfect Timing.
Because we’re a team of 150 people and there are only 90 parking bays available, I park on the street…
Letting The Dark Win
It’s been a mad, crazy week of networking and a fresh start. The sense that despite upheavals and retrenchments, life…
The MOST Luxurious Thing In ALL The World…
Two weeks, and ALL the emotions – all the phases – have been run: fear, anger, insecurity, relief, happiness, and…
One day…
…in the near future, I will tell you all about the beautiful synchronicity that is manifesting as I write these…
Crazy Eyes.
I used to drink between 4 and 6 litres of sugary carbonated cold drink every single day. A whole 2…
Sunday Mornings
The Sunday mornings of my childhood were filled with breakfast smells and hugs and laughter. There’s nothing quite like bacon,…
Unutterably bored.
It’s a sultry Saturday afternoon and I am languishing languidly on my bed, like a languid thing, bored to tears.…
…and Supporting Bands
It’s odd that I am not a musician of some sort, because I have an impressive music collection and an…
Dear John…
The memories of you are more real than our relationship ever was… I’ve met someone new, Cris, so this is…
What happens next.
In my dreams I can fly. It’s one of a couple of recurring dreams I have and it goes all…
What if…
(with apologies to Rudyard Kipling) What if you can’t keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and…
Life101
This ‘being an adult’ thing requires serious momentum. The dishes need doing. So does the laundry. The fridge needs to…
Worse than death
The melodramatic tyranny of man flu It came on so suddenly. I was sitting at my desk at work when…
