“The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious – from behind a locked door inside of…
Read MoreDefining Moments!
Recently I have been to stay with my cousin, Judith Saulez and family in Durban. It was great to be able to spend some quality time with them. Their three…
Read MoreLove Life!
The thing is to love life to love it even when you have no stomach for it, when everything you held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands and…
Read MoreThe old Lie!
(Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori) On the evening that B and I had planned to spend with Janet Suzman in London, she told us that unfortunately she would…
Read More‘Girls need not wear pink!’
I stared at the photograph on Jan’s fridge. It was of a man dragging a woman across the floor by her arm. “That’s from Porgy and Bess,” she said, “Amusing,…
Read More“This Royal Throne of Kings!”
This royal throne of kings, this scepter’d isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and…
Read MoreTake the Plunge!
“Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself” Debbie Meyer I would never have imagined how important technology, computing, the internet and Social Media would become in…
Read MoreTick…..Tock…!
TICK…TOCK…TICK…TOCK…TICK… You can’t speed up or slow down time. It just carries moving regardless, relentlessly pressing on…and on…and on… TICK…TOCK…TICK…TOCK…TICK… I have just spent a blissful night with the…
Read MoreSpar’s Child!
Because of my accident, I have only 40% eyesight and no depth of field awareness so I am unable to drive. I walk everywhere. To my unutterable delight, my…
Read MoreAgility vs Ability!
I am on holiday! I love being on holiday. GOING on holiday however, is the most unbelievable schlepp! Firstly, the packing! You can’t imagine how difficult it is packing with…
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