Reading Time: 3 min My entire life I treated my anxiety as if it was the Voldemort in the room – the “Thing-That-Must-Not-Be-Named”. But it became increasingly difficult to avoid this presence…
Reading Time: 3 min 2020 was a great year for me – fitness-wise. Due to the restrictions on travel and social interaction, I was not able to travel as much as usual…
Reading Time: 3 min For months I lived as if Covid-19 didn’t exist in my life. I was so tired of staying inside, that I grabbed the first opportunity to enjoy a…
Reading Time: 4 min It’s been more than a month since I first moved to Stellenbosch and I am still attempting to give you the most accurate version of my experience. So…
Reading Time: 6 min I’m a sucker for love. Any kind of love. During the lockdown I thought a lot about the love we gained, the love we lost and all the…
Reading Time: 10 min This Women’s Day, we decided to reflect on all of the things that separate us from each other. We tried to find the beauty in our differences because…
Reading Time: 4 min This all started when my mom called to tell me that my cousin is getting married. I’m the oldest of six and both my youngest cousins are engaged.…
Reading Time: 7 min As Elené recently put so eloquently, the notion of home has recently extended into our personalities and has, in some ways, become our personalities: “It’s an osmotic process,…
Reading Time: 4 min “Huis, paleis, pandok, varkhok…” is an Afrikaans saying or game that we used to play to determine where we would one day end up living during preschool. This…
Reading Time: 3 min A few months ago I introduced you to the girl with the shoulder pads and the anxiety disorder who was most likely sipping whiskey at the local bar. …