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I have to start off by saying that I’m very nervous about posting this and that what follows is self-indulgent chin-stroking about my first novel and therefore likely to interest almost no one. But it’s my blog and I’ll weeboo weeboo if I want to, so feel free to tap out now. Picasso was onceContinue reading “May I introduce to you…”

I was just about to post my December column when I realised that, for my subscribed peeps (Hello all eight of you!), it would be kind of rude to just plough ahead without so much as a Happy New Year. Right? So here is a ‘Happy New Year!’ and a little something I want toContinue reading “Hello 2022”

‘Listen, and do not forget, and I will show you a mystery. It is not the sacrifice, whether it comes in youth or age, or the god remits it; is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting, Theseus. The readiness is all. It washes heart and mind from things of noContinue reading “The readiness is all”

The column should’ve started with a hand print. It’s the image that kept coming to me as I wailed and gnashed my teeth through writing the September column for Woman&Home SA. The gist of the piece is about creativity, and it forced me into a conversation with myself that I’d been trying to avoid forContinue reading “Hand on the wall”

It’s been a very long time since I last blogged. Almost a year now. (And I’ll probably write this one in fits and starts … my blogging muscles are weak and undefined in this new not-Dorothy Black space) I used to enjoy amusing myself with the Dorothy Black posts, but for the bulk of thatContinue reading “This is a little first post”