Do you believe in intuition? intuition /ɪntjʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/ noun the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. Sounds very much like a gut feeling, hunch, inner voice or sixth sense, doesn’t it? Or[…]
In the fields, we would laugh and play, Enjoying the warmth of the winter’s day. We’d lay on our backs In delight, What a wonderful sight! Clouds as soft as cotton candy Some pink, others[…]
Mums, dads, grandparents and guardians… are you okay? I mean really, are you okay? Between the online schooling, home cleaning, cooking, those heaps of laundry AND working from home, are you okay? Maybe… it’s a[…]
Levels. What levels? For whom? It’s 11pm as I type this and there’s drag racing in my neighbourhood in Durban. I hear engines revving and tyres screeching. Curfew? They don’t care. In fact, I have[…]
My biggest fear about being pregnant the second time was that it would not be as easy as the first time. I was correct. Boy oh boy! Perhaps the most apt phrase for a mother[…]
“Hugging, shaking hands and kissing are things of the past.” And with those words; President Cyril Ramaphosa opened up the proverbial can of worms. It was the nudge I needed to write this post. These[…]
Day 41, going on 42. I’m cracking; like that delicate crack that emerges at the top of the cake while baking in the oven. As poetic as it sounds, it’s painful. I don’t have the[…]
I cannot sleep, even though I need to sleep. And no, it’s not the coffee. I guess now is a good time to confess. I haven’t been able to drink coffee for three weeks now[…]
A poem by Maya Jagjivan Kalicharan, with references by Charles Dickens It was the worst of times, It was the best of times, This is not just a tale of two cities… It’s a tale[…]
Day 19 and for the first time since the lockdown, I was forced to leave my house. It was not under the best of circumstances. I had to drive myself to the doctor as my[…]
