by Lisa-Jo | Jul 25, 2011 | Family, Inbetween, South Africa, Travel
We’ve been back since Wednesday last week. We just finally finished unpacking tonight. And only because there was an assortment of my favorite jams, candies and cookies buried beneath the layers of clothes. Jet lag still has me hitting the sheets by 9pm and...
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by Lisa-Jo | Jul 22, 2011 | Family, Five Minute Friday, South Africa, Travel
On Fridays around these parts we like to write. Not for comments or traffic or anyone else’s agenda. But for pure love of the written word. For joy at the sound of syllables, sentences and paragraphs all strung together by the voice of the speaker. We love to...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 18, 2011 | Family, South Africa, Travel
I lie in bed and hear them come clumping, laughing, stomping up the stairs. The weak, wintery African sun is just easing her way over the horizon and only children and dogs are brave enough to be up and at ’em this cold in the morning. “Come on,...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 15, 2011 | Daughters, Motherhood, South Africa, Travel, Uncategorized
{Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about Five Minute Friday. It’s just that my days in the Southern hemisphere are few and my memories and words in this place are many. So I need more than five minutes this week. But the link up for your beautiful five minute moments...
by Lisa-Jo | Jul 14, 2011 | Daughters, Family, South Africa, Travel
The year after my mother died I couldn’t sleep. I would dread bedtime, dragging feet toward the inevitable. Empty hours stretched ahead of me and I couldn’t see my way toward the sunrise; the night was dark and dense and filled with loneliness. I hated to be the only...
