I’m letting the music guide me back to South Africa. The silly songs still ring in my head from the time I wake in the morning to the hour I lay my head back down to sleep. I’m sure they’re continuing on through my dreams, making the journey connected, cyclical.
A dear friend told me the […]

OK, so I’m not really into competitive reading, and I don’t usually write real book reviews, but The Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge posted on A Life in Books had too dear a theme for me to pass up.
Get this, it’s all about travelling to distant places by way of books. Can you believe it? What […]

This is one of my favorite sayings from the CEO of my company. My man and I have both worked for him, and he’s said it about both of us at least once. When I told one of my best friends I have career limiting tendencies, she said, “They’re called breasts, dear.”
But that’s really not […]

My mother shared with me her gift of turning everything into a song. One word or phrase will start a tune in her head. She usually takes the words and makes up her own songs to go with it. But for me, words will trigger memories of songs I already know, and they come pouring […]

In his story “Nutcracker.com” from Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris talks about his hatred of computers and how his friends would call him a “technophobe.” He argues against such a label, claiming that just because he hates computers doesn’t mean he’s afraid of them. He writes:
The word “phobic” has its place when properly […]

I think a lot about the subject of racism, and I love to read books by and about people of other races, religions, nations and cultures. There’s just something to be said for learning the differences and recognizing the sameness, those common threads of all humanity.
Regrettably, hatred and fear of those who are different from […]

My last stop on the magical realism tour of the world is South Africa. Andre Brink’s Imaginings of Sand is an epic tale of several generations of white women living in rural South Africa. As in most of the Latin American tales, the political climate plays like a soundtrack to the magic that happens throughout […]

When I think back on it, I really don’t know what to believe about things my ex-boyfriend told me. His brother said to me after we broke up, “S- is the biggest liar I know.” Of course, at the time I was dating S-, I believed everything; I was under his spell. His youngest brother […]