June 2010

So, someone asked me why I didn’t make a speech at my own birthday. Truth is, I didn’t want to. Truth is, with everything that’s happened in the last year,…

I am thirty, and I am totally okay with it. I am loved, beyond all sphere of my former imagination. I am blessed, in ways I could never have expected.…

1. Unwittingly brought an egotistical SA popstar (now no longer with us) down to size in a hotel lobby, in 2001 #turning30 2. Got a degree #turning30 3. Lost both parents #turning30 4.…

in2 days. i will be 30. in2 days. i will be at the age where i said i would, by then, have done something. i have not done it. not…

5ive – Cameron is five. She dances, she smiles, she demands to be treated like the big girl she is, yet, cuddles in to the crook of my arm and…

To rest. My mother. In ritual and in heart, she is at rest. Dancing with my dad. Smiling at us. Laughing once again. My soul. Cuddled between friends, who made…

for my beautiful, wonderful child, who smiles and awakens me with little kisses. for my shmooshy. always with me. always holding my hand, whether we’re dancing, sleeping or anything inbetween.…

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Eve Marshall Jenkin (nee Baker). 27/02/1944 – 05/06/2010. Thank you for being my Mama. Thank you for being so many people’s Mama Afrika. Thank you for the life you gave…

precious moment… was reading this to Cameron with my mom on Sunday. i was so tired. eyes falling out of my sockets tired. but it was one of my alltime…