My Maketaan, your %$# Waatlemoen

Yes, there is a colloquial name for this fruit? Vegetable? But you must know your audience before you use it. I shall stick to Maketaan. It does not matter really; it is still delicious. What is pertinent, is that in all my homestead/farm visits, there was always a jar of this preserve on the table, …

Keeping up with the Jones’

Do you always compare yourself to others? That was the question I asked myself, which I should have asked the person (or anonymous group of persons) presenting me with a challenge this week. It related to why someone else (or another anonymous group of persons) did not have to go through the same hurdles as …

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Welcome back to me, by me. I have not written in weeks. And you can tell by the way this blank page is intimidating me. But the words, and their subtleties are vying to get out. So, I must persist. Why I have not written is a mundane, yet lofty reason. Mundane because I was …