It's post #2 of my 2Summers 2021 Support Group series, in which I brag about my knitting exploits and complain about the Bridgerton finale.

I'm fascinated by South African roadhouses, the equivalent of U.S. drive-ins. My first roadhouse blog feature is the Lollipop in Pretoria.

I’ve been trying to publish this post for the past two days. I painstakingly crank out a paragraph, stare at it, read it back a few times, doze off in my …

This morning I went to St. James Presbyterian Church to see their ribbon memorial to those who have died from covid-19.

More than three months after losing him, I am finally saying a proper goodbye to Smokey, the Melville Cat.

Thoughts about fear, anxiety, and blogging in January 2021, amidst South Africa's second wave of covid-19.

NOTE: I originally wrote this post before January 6th, when pro-Trump insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol and mounted the biggest threat to American …

I went back to visit the Wonderboom Nature Reserve in Pretoria after ten years away. It was just as delightful as I remembered.

I visited the Voortrekker Monument on 16 December, the Day of Reconciliation, a public holiday that used to be called the Day of the Vow.

I had lunch at Anong Thai in Cyrildene and it was the best Thai meal I've had since I moved to Johannesburg.

On Sunday I found out I'd been exposed to a covid-positive person and suddenly had to quarantine. It changed my outlook on the pandemic.

Last week I spent two days at Walkersons, a lodge just outside Dullstroom. I was dazzled by how bright green and blue everything looked.