I’m sure most of you have watched Mary Poppins. I personally have not, but I do know the song.  PTSD, major depression, social anxiety and anxiety personality disorder. “Normal” people hear these things and think it’s a bunch of words strung together to describe “off” behaviour. I’ve been called unstable, incompetent, drama creating, and those […]

The Pit – derived from the saying: it’s the pits, really is a pit.  When things are really bad and you don’t know where to turn, most tend to unravel and turn to some sort of coping mechanism. Coping mechanisms could be anything from alcohol, drugs, negative sexual exploits – basically, a self destructive mechanism […]

As many of you may have watched or seen Marc Lottering’s older shows, you could remember him referring to Aunty Merle as Athlone’s rose, in reference to Elton John singing about England’s Rose.  Well, with that said, Athlone really did have a rose. Her name is Suerena Judith Alexander. Writing that last sentence I am […]

But why? They’re there, let them hang free and loose in all their glory. Which genius decided that women need to be tortured for natural parts of their body?  Wires and straps and gadgets and removable “what what’s” – I still beg to question – But why? I wish we lived in a world where […]

Fires in the Western Cape over the summer months are a given. It is sad to see our natural vegetation destroyed by wild rampant fires. The main causes are of course attributed to smokers throwing their stompies out. But let’s face it, when there are several points of origin for the same fire – me […]

A man married a beautiful l girl. He loved her very much. One day she developed a skin disease. Slowly she started to lose her beauty. It so happened that one day her husband left for a tour. While returning he met with an accident and lost his eyesight. However their married life continued as […]

We always think of scary monsters as being predators, psychopaths or the new politically correct version, sociopaths. Sociopaths are social parasites who prey on the innocent and have the inability to feel remorse. This inability is caused by nature or nurture. An empath is someone who is attracted to other people’s pain. They want to […]

I wish you were here to see the chaos. To help me make sense of things to help me make it better to show me a beacon of light in a fallen world.  To be my advocate. To have my back. To tell the truth. To stand up for the downtrodden. To fight for the […]

Yesterday was a hard day. It was the first day I woke up without crying, but yesterday was a hard day. I had my morning coffee in the beautiful garden, but yesterday was a hard day. I went sample shopping for new paint, but yesterday was a hard day. I packed up the last of […]

Love: smell, taste, ease, smooths the edges, convenient, economical emotional band aid, instant gratification, guaranteed sleep Hate: flared tempers, seeing through rose tinted glasses, loss of inhibition, loss of self respect, loss of respect for others, devastation, erratic decisions, compromised judgement, compromising decisions, devastating hangover  You see, wine may not be the cause of the […]