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before I forget…
While making the decision to move on is simple, the actual moving on part can be pretty tough when just about everyone from unwashed, new age hippies to sterile, stuffy scientists have a theory on how you should do it. … Continue reading
Posted in Relationships and new hope, What's read...
Tagged André Brink, Before I Forget, Dorn, James Hollis, letting go, love, meditation, trauma, Why Good People Do Bad Things, writing, yoga, YOU
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struck…
A while back (during the bumper Full Metal Bunny year) Women’s Health magazine published a piece on ‘what it feels like’: to be bitten by a snake, get the bends, live with diabetes – and have a stroke. Loyal readers … Continue reading
Posted in stroke of luck, Uncategorized
Tagged blessing, diabetes insipidus, migraine, panhypopituitarism, premature menopause, steriods, stroke, Women's Health, writing
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a lost would…
Since I was old enough to read, I’ve been in love with words. Before I’d learnt to unlock pages, I fell for fairytales, whispered bedtimes with indulgent adults. I grew up on a strict diet of sunshine and Story Teller tapes … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes...
Tagged cassette, dream, fairytales, love, Manhattan, marketing, muse, passion, Story Teller, words, writing
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sticking with Betty…
All this reflecting leaves me a little disinclined to writing: what I really want to do is curl under the covers with my cats and hibernate like a hermit til I feel ready to engage with the big wide world … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes...
Tagged balance, Betty, chemistry, Dax, medication, reflective, writing
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point of view…
At the beginning of this year, I signed up and completed an online writing course – the same time Dax & I prepared to move city (and move-in). As if that wasn’t enough, his sprawling family descended in South Africa, … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes...
Tagged American Pie, boabab, bonsai, Bowties For Betty, Dax, family, move in, narrartive, point of view, South Africa, wedding, writing
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galloping headlong…
Scarlet sees red in the Big Apple as calendars dissolve into the annual commercial blood fest: Valentine’s Day. Bleurgh… Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:06 AM Subject: parking violations & encore awards (beware the tirade) Hello again. It’s been another rather … Continue reading
Posted in Letters from limbo
Tagged Adrian Mole, Africa, ballet, Bear Mountain, Beetle, blizzard, Business Class, Cape Town, card exploding hearts in every, Central Park, commute, coordination, cynic, dogs, employer of choice, encore award, Erica Jung, eternal love, exhibition, fire hydrant, fool’s gold, Global Collaboration, guilt, GWB, haircut, Henry Miller, heroin chic, ice skating, London, lost, Maltese Poodle, Ms Jones, New Orleans, New York New York, NY, parking violation, pathological, plumber, primary school, quit, quote, retail therapy, risk, romantic, rookie error, Rottweiler, self image, sentiment, shopping, sightseeing, single, South Africa, Starbucks, strategy, stress, Taste, thank you, the law, tobogganing, toll, trainer, u-bend, Umgazana, unwelcome attention, US, Valentine's Day, writing, yuppie
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falling out of trees…
Today sees me returning to the Hout Bay house to pack boxes. I’ve been putting this off: the mere thought exhausts me. And makes me feel inutterably sad. Which makes me feel exhausted (see the nasty loop?) But. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes..., Relationships and other disasters
Tagged breakup, Dax, Hiroshima, Jim Morrison, koala bears, Loki, love, move-out, words, writing
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