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• March 31, 2025

  Who’s Fooling Who?

  The year was 1993. The end of March brought the winter’s sluggish end. Temperatures were on the rise after the bitter cold and snow. (Ok, North Carolina didn’t actually see much snow, but it was more than I, Child of the South African Soil, had thus far seen in my entire life.) I had finally…
• February 25, 2025

  Hope Deferred: A Navillera sermon

  Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 Navillera is a 2021 drama starring Park In-Hwang and Song Kang. Fret not! It isn’t your regular, stereotypical K-romance with requisite pretty faces gazing at each other longingly for 5 minutes every episode (Long Lingering Looks™). Rather, it…
• January 26, 2025

  Voices.

  Kindly allow me to indulge my inner geek for a moment. Embryologically, the human ear[i] begins to be formed at around 22 days post-conception. As just a thickening on the ectoderm. Rudimentary, really. Incidentally, the eyes start to form around the same time. We can hear from around 18 weeks gestation, according to those in…
• April 27, 2024

  Give Me Hope, Jo’anna

  I had just turned 9. American news stations were running stories about how our Mzansi (South Africa to them) was preparing for the elections, with the requisite alarmist field reports for a world awaiting peri-election blood-shed. South Africa was BIG news. I didn’t know how big, until news reports came knocking at the door of…
• March 15, 2024

  For Bronwyn

  My friend Bronwyn went home to be with the Lord on 16 March 2023, following a long battle with breast cancer. In the days following her passing, I was looking through my archives, trying somehow to trace the well-worn path of our friendship. I could only find one picture of the two of us in…