I’m Back: An Un-numbered Lockdown Post

I’m Back: An Un-numbered Lockdown Post

Hello. After blogging mostly every day for the first 100 days of South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, I took a full week off. This is weird. It feels like I’ve been gone for ages. In fact I haven’t been gone at all — I’ve been right here, in...
Day 100: My Top Five Lockdown Posts

Day 100: My Top Five Lockdown Posts

It’s Day 100 of the South African lockdown. I’m still here, at home, on my couch. Here I am on Day 100, wearing the nearly completed scarf I’ve been knitting for the past six months. (If you look carefully, you’ll see a knitting needle sticking...
Lockdown Day 97

Lockdown Day 97

I’ve been thinking all day about what to name this post, or what kind of theme or subject to give it, or whatever. But today is Day 97 of the lockdown, which means it’s been 100 days since I started this Lockdown Journal. (I started the journal three days...