Battle Cries and Rose Petal Lies
The news used to erupt at every mention of sexual assault. Now? It’s background noise, a dull ache in a world choked with violence against women. I stand in that wreckage, a twice-broken survivor in a country where rape is a national anthem. They ask why I’m single,...
Could this diet be the answer? I started the Estima Protocol Diet and here’s what happened. | Week 1
I weighed myself today. It didn’t quite go according to plan. Urgh, I’ve been here before. In 2013 I went onto Banting which was wildly successful for me. I lost 38kg. Yay! I also lost a lot of my hair, my nails started breaking and my health took a tremendous...
Butterflies, fast fashion, and frappapappamochasomethingcino’s.
Because that is the beauty of fiction. Reality sucks! Reality tastes like the socks your boyfriend wore all weak to the gym, then wore that morning on a 30km cycle with his buddies where they stopped to swim in a dam then cycled another 30km back, stopping along the way to take a dump on the side of the road and then wiping his ass with the socks.
14 December 2022
I am tired, so crushingly tired. Moving house is stressful enough, but moving towns that have different municipalities, different traffic departments, different rules needing different licenses, and different paperwork, is a whole new level of stress. But by far, the...
7 December 2022
As I came around a bend I was greeted by a troupe of baboons sitting in the road. There must’ve been about 8 adults and 4 or 5 babies of varying ages running around, playing with each other.