Random thoughts of a happy brain damaged ex actress… Me!
I placed my foot with sheer terror on what I perceived to be a shifting and sliding mass of gulping sinking sand. To my utter surprise I found that I was not swallowed whole. I discovered that although this landscape was a totally new terrain, it was firm underfoot. I wasn’t sure where the path
I remember as a child being shut in my room and being told: “You can stay there until you are prepared to come out and say you are sorry !” Mutter…mutter…it wasn’t my fault! How was I to know that Patrick’s silkworms would die just because I hid them
PJ Powers is one of the biggest singing sensations in South Africa. I met Penelope twenty four years ago, just after my accident. Let me tell you about it. I was recovering my parents farm. We got a phone call from Maralin Vanrenen asking us if
Zuma’s middle name is “Gedleyihlekisa” which means: “He who smiles while crushing you.” Indeed, he certainly seems to be smiling while crushing the life out of South Africa. – I remember at the age of ten riding up to the grocery store to
The Swallows are leaving. B and John are Swallows. In other words, they spend six months here in South Africa and six months in England. I have one more week with them before they leave for England once more. I am dreading their departure. B is my Soulmate. How
That’s the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end.” ― Elizabeth Wurtzel *** I have been depressed. Badly depressed. After my accident, the
This story that I am about to tell you is Pre-Cochlear Implant era. Before I was given my “hearing” back! I realised with a shock that I had a large amount of friends in Durban but I didn’t know one single unattached male! All my friends were married or had that “significant other.”
His heart was beating fast. Doem! Doem! Doem! Why did it always feel as if it was beating through his ears, he wondered? Doem! Doem! Doem! At the rate his heart was going you’d think he was terribly nervous. He smiled. He wasn’t nervous. Oh no, he was filled with excited anticipation.
“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.” – Edith Södergran Create. What does the word “Create” mean to you? According to the dictionary
Valentines day. I remember looking with utter envy at my school friends who had received those wonderful, much ached after Valentine Day cards. Oh, how I longed for one! As I grew up, I was the sort of girl that never committed herself to a relationship.
