Uncategorized – In My Words

To being brave

Dec 30, 2025Dec 30, 2025 adminPersonal

I started off 2025 with big plans for my blog. In fact, I captured this picture in January while working on this dream project of mine at a coffee shop, with my creative juices flowing[…]

Sabr and Shukr continued…

Apr 30, 2025Apr 30, 2025 adminPersonal

It’s the last day of the fourth month of 2025, and this is my first blog post for the year. Definitely an anomaly. Definitely not according to “algorithms” of my life. Yes, I write in[…]

Seven: The Bigger Picture

Jul 20, 2024Jul 25, 2024 adminPersonal

I have been extremely quiet here, I know. Oh! I have missed it, truly, madly, deeply. This is the space where I am unashamedly myself, tend to share a bit too much and then wonder…[…]

Dream on, dreamers

Jun 4, 2023Jun 4, 2023 adminEntertainment

Looking resplendent in their gowns, they walked on the red carpet down the aisle as new graduates and spotted me eagerly waiting to congratulate them. Each of my students hugged me and thanked me. What[…]

The wait, and the weight, of the festive season

Dec 24, 2022Dec 24, 2022 adminLife in South Africa

Feeling festive? Like it’s the most wonderful time of the year? The festive season air is heavy, with the pressure to be, and look your happiest. There’s the expectation that you will dress up, show[…]

The writing is… on the mug!

Jan 6, 2021Jan 7, 2021 adminUncategorized

I would like to tell you that my days regularly start off with a warm, soothing cup of tea with a slice of lemon, as pictured. Sounds and looks idyllic, doesn’t it? But that’s not[…]

Pregnancy. No Copy and “Paste”

May 29, 2020 adminLife in South Africa

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[…]

2020

Jan 2, 2020 adminPoetry

A chance to Begin anew Start afresh And write your own destiny… It can only be A new year! A new decade! Laden with promises… How wonderful, I hear you say. There’s something magical, Somewhat[…]

Bowing out on the blog for 2019

Dec 30, 2019Dec 30, 2019 adminUncategorized

Traditions. That’s what the festive season is all about – traditions that we create or re-create or follow by default. There’s a warmth that traditions bring and they add perspective to your life too. It’s[…]

Period.

Mar 1, 2019Mar 1, 2019 adminUncategorized

Back at campus, and my former student who is helping with student orientation says to me, “You haven’t been blogging much.” She was direct. It wasn’t a question; it was a statement. That’s why I[…]