25 January 2021
As I sat on the stoep catching up on the news of Cyclone Eloise to the south of us, my thoughts cloaked with birdsong, the familiar […]
22 December 2020
As we reach the end of this pandemically crazy year I began my usual tidy up. I like to start the new year with my papers […]
28 October 2020
Here I am doing the writer thing at a coffee shop in OR Tambo International Airport. As always I am hours early for my flight but […]
28 September 2020
Another crisis, another upheaval I have no idea how to deal with. A friend sent a link this morning and as the powerful words of I […]
14 September 2020
The notification of a charge on my credit card got my attention. It was from a company with whom I had signed up for a free […]
7 September 2020
Writers like to joke about their work. Usually how little they manage to do as they search endlessly for the creative genius that will catapult them […]
28 August 2020
This year Women’s month in South Africa has passed in a haze of Covid-19 lockdowns, fear, tales of unending corruption, and muted concern over domestic violence. […]
21 August 2020
There is a palpable sense of lightness this week in South Africa, after moving to Level 2 of lockdown. In retrospect the Covid journey seems to […]
14 August 2020
Friday, middle of the month, it has been a frenetically busy day here in White River. I can only think it is the thought that maybe, […]
6 August 2020
I’m a writer. It’s my career, my calling, an unavoidable compulsion, call it what you will, it is what I am and what I do. It […]
14 June 2020
I was born in Mbabane, in the Kingdom of Eswatini many years ago and lived there for most of my life until a couple of years […]
25 May 2020
The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has put our future into our hands: “… as individuals, as families, as communities it is you who will […]
11 May 2020
One of the most interesting aspects of any catastrophe is the number of experts the situation produces. Those who don’t quite have the cheek to pronounce […]
4 May 2020
This is the story of two families, one father, two mothers. Or one husband and two wives. The man is my father. I am from the […]
2 May 2020
I don’t believe there is a born again Christian on the face of this earth who does not desire to know Jesus, God the Father more […]
23 April 2020
In so many ways the last four weeks have dragged, yet the time has flown by. I have achieved a small number of ticks against my […]
7 April 2020
Something different for today. This is a piece I wrote a number of years back for fun, really. I needed to get a flow going and […]
3 April 2020
I have no doubt the majority of people reading this, certainly in South Africa, have had a letter from ‘my friend Victor’ whose niece is a […]
30 March 2020
It is interesting how sound is magnified by silence. I live close to a main road and am used to the almost non-stop hum and rumble […]
4 February 2020
When I am alone Drowning in sadness The music of unrequited love Throbbing through my mind There is One whose arms fold gently around When fear […]
18 January 2020
10 January 2020