a pam ponders ponderingly
Reading The Shopkeeper's post about hanging laundry sent me on a trip down memory lane. When I was a kid growing up in South Africa, I would watch my mother wash clothes in the bathtub and then hang them on a line to dry. And when we visited family in India, I'd watch her beat the clothes on a designated laundry rock (a large, flat thing either born there or dragged there) before...hanging them on…
This is a rather baffling concept to me, even as I experience it. We all need water to survive. So far, I've succeeded in drinking enough water that I don't keel over and die. (Which is about 1-2 cups a day. Horrific.) But maintaining an optimal level of water intake? I'm not doing that part right. And it's so counterintuitive to me that I'm not hydrating! I want to be able to sing, and have…
It truly is a time of transformation! Part I. Haircut After two and a half months of the aforementioned bit-chomping for a pixie cut, I finally got one yesterday! I was really nervous about it, because the last time I got a haircut in Cape Town, I overpaid for an underwhelming experience. This time, I paid only R50 more and got the deluxe treatment, with everything from hot chocolate and a…
Answering Ava's Bear Blog Question Challenge.
Thank you thank you thank you Robert Birming for the Bear Blog theme of my dreams. In fact, I've gone into frankly unhinged territory by also turning all of my links rainbow-coloured when you hover over them. Is this the taste of too much power? Happy Pride!!
"Junited is a little blog-loving adventure where the blogging community gets together to share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way." – Robert Birming
South Africans are a pretty friendly lot.
I've recently made a shift from content marketing back into the publishing world, and it feels both terrifying and thrilling. (AI and capitalism have done their numbers here, too, so it feels extra daunting.) I've been immersing myself in the local publishing scene with gusto – getting to know other editors, reading more books by local authors (as well as figuring out if I want to start publishing…
"Your AI slop bores me" – a website using the whimsical as a vehicle for protest.
A response to tala's and megatechbody's blogs on joymaxxing and supermarket etiquette.