Quick- what’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think about South Africa? If you thought of lions, elephants, carjackings, or weird street food, I have no time for you. You’ve clearly not given the pulchritudinous hadeda ibis its due. Yes, yes, I know some other stupid birds hog the limelight. For reasons beyond comprehension, the blue crane is officially South Africa’s national bird. Have you seen one of these suckers in real life though? They have […]
December, 2018
Stranger Danger
We all know that strangers are bad news. I’m not here to refute that. But in my experience, it’s not like they’re any worse than everybody else. I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, but humanity in general is a giant dumpster fire. Everybody is a hot garbage pile, and being a stranger doesn’t really add to or detract from that in my books. So that being said, I interact with strangers all the time. On […]
Maple and Marula- The Book
In case you haven’t pieced it together yet based on my wildly infrequent posts and the overall general shoddiness of the content, this blog isn’t my job. Blogging pays just a little bit less than my other side gig castrating cockroaches (SOMEBODY needs to control their population, and I don’t see YOU jumping to the plate, Judgey McJudgenson). Anyway, what I’m saying is this blog has grown organically (and not from any conscious effort on my part) because it seems […]