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by Lisa-Jo | Apr 15, 2011 | Blogging, Five Minute Friday, South Africa, Travel
Friday, time to crack open the chocolate ice cream and unscripted version of beautiful you! Got five minutes? Let’s write. Let’s finger paint with words Let’s just write and not worry if it’s just right or not. Here’s how to play along:...
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by Lisa-Jo | Mar 8, 2011 | South Africa, Travel
It’s been nearly three and half years since I was last home. Home where the ground turns purple under a jacaranda carpet every October. Home where our history is littered with horror, prejudice and a several lifetimes of guilt. Home where hope triumphed and my...
by Lisa-Jo | Mar 2, 2011 | Kids, Motherhood, Sweetstuff, Travel
There are tiger mothers who don’t write books or end up on best seller’s lists. There are tiger mothers who ferociously protect rather than (figuratively) eat their young. There are tiger mothers who rear up on hind legs and wrestle the world, its demons,...
by Lisa-Jo | Feb 22, 2011 | Daughters, Kids, Marriage, Travel
Pete and I are 35 and still have never owned a house. We rent a quirky little home with a backyard that is at times better suited to bundu-bashing than games of baseball or catch. The carpets are stained with melted play-doh and mud has been tracked in irreversible...
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by Lisa-Jo | Feb 3, 2011 | South Africa, Travel
Mail and memories arrive today from South Africa. And candy. I’m standing in the living room surrounded by chaos and flour because Micah is modeling a culinary masterpiece at the dining room table. And the mailman hands me a package that I wasn’t expecting...
by Lisa-Jo | Jan 20, 2011 | Callings, Faith, South Africa, Travel
I was born and raised in South Africa – third, fourth, fifth generation – and all my childhood memories of vacations are from the dry flat landscape of the Karoo. Stark unrelenting miles of dusky golds and browns interrupted only by bitter faced mountains and lonely...
