One Country at a Time
Posted in All About Me, California, California Dreamin', North America, San Francisco, USA on Aug 2nd, 2010
You leave the house in a tank top and skirt at 8am and return at noon in a wool coat and scarf. (Also, add to the list: You’re smart enough to carry layers with you wherever you go.) Your calves are the thickest part about you thanks to streets called Gough, Vermont, Divis and Lombard. [...]
Posted in All About Me on Jun 21st, 2010
What do you do when you cross this impossibly cute furball… …with this horndog who can’t keep his pants on? (You see where this is going.) Well, if you’re SVV and me, you get…your first baby! (Of the little white rat persuasion, that is.) That’s right, in a twist of fate, the day we touched [...]
Posted in All About Me on Apr 15th, 2010
I just returned from my month-long African adventures last night and, following a 13-hour slumber, am up and at ‘em tackling wedding tasks (37 days!) and deadlines galore. (And tending to an injured SVV, who had the nerve to go and get surgery and a metal plate inserted into his hand the day before my [...]
Posted in Africa, All About Me, Johannesburg, South Africa, The Travel Bug on Mar 23rd, 2010
“I’ve been threatened, held at gunpoint and locked in prison three times,” Angus says matter-of-factly and with a shrug, not a trace of irony in his lilting voice. The sole remaining Associated Press reporter in Zimbabwe, Angus has a weathered look and trace of experience in his voice that only lingers in a handful of [...]
