Towards the end of last year, I had a revelation. I thought a great thought to myself. One day, I thought – and it was a lovely day; a sunny sort of wonderful late spring day – I thought: what if people aren’t assholes*. What if, I thought – and bear with me here – what if, IContinueContinue reading “A Year of Seeing Good”
Category Archives: Blog
Wishing upon a star
I’m sending Christmas cards this year. Yes, I know, I know, I say this every year; its something I’ve wanted to do for a while now, probably ever since I came back from Taiwan where I learned to send mail and gift boxes. (And also: send by actual post? From this country? Oh how weContinueContinue reading “Wishing upon a star”
Gone in 600 Seconds: The Woodstock edition
It was an early Sunday morning. So early, in fact, that not even SE Supermarket was open. I lived in one of those narrow Victorian Woodstock houses on the corner of Salisbury and Roodebloem opposite this place, so you know that means something. Anyway. The household – and the rest of Woodstock, no doubt – wasContinueContinue reading “Gone in 600 Seconds: The Woodstock edition”
Of gardens and birthdays and jumping…
Before I head into a post about gardening and birthdays, I want to let you know about a short crash course in creative writing I’m facilitating this coming Saturday at the Norval Foundation. On 4 November I’ll be giving a three-hour crash course in creative writing as part of the Foundation’s two-day Art Book Fair.ContinueContinue reading “Of gardens and birthdays and jumping…”
A talk and two extracts
This month I was delighted to talk at two library events about The Fulcrum – the book club talk at Obs Library and the Author Talk at Tokai Library. I loved putting the talk together and thought I’d load it to the site as part of the book information page and then I thought, well, inContinueContinue reading “A talk and two extracts”
TANYA MEESON 