Number 122: On calm full moon nights, the sea, stars and my Winchester in 1976 on the Minesweepers’ Bridge. With me so often to far-away places, Prescribed for Matric 1974, The Winchester and I have been together a long time: “Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds …” “Death be not Proud…

Number 121: We travelled often from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town. Those trip details etched in my memory: “Are we there yet?!”. First stop Humansdorp for Breakfast. Engineering drawings at Storms River restaurant of how the bridge was built; single lane roads and long lines of cars unable to overtake; hairpin bend on Bloukrans Pass;…

Number 120: Sheryl and I are now empty nesters in Cape Town (and Onrust)!  Maya in Johannesburg; Yair, Deb, Lim & Mihle about to set up home in Gqeberha. Sheryl, ever the artist, sees the beauty and storyline in so many things (that I often only see when she points them out to me) and…

Number 119: I can’t figure Bob Dylan the person. But relate personally, intimately to his beyond exceptional poetry.  Limitless thought provoking stories and “one-liners” embedded in multitudinous songs that guide, provoke, inspire, move, excite, trigger profound reflections and questions. So many in “It’s Alright Ma I’m Only Bleeding”: “To understand you know too soon there…

Number 118: Ilana and David have been together since 2016. They met through mutual friends and hit it off immediately. Together they travelled to Japan twice (once by themselves and once with Aaron and Maya, David’s two youngest children). David has a deep love and appreciation for Japan, has journeyed there numerous times and been…

Number 116: I love engaging in many types of art: painting, (oils, acrylics, watercolours); ceramics, mosaic making; spinning, dying and weaving tapestries; sewing quilts; decoupage; and painting tablecloths! Painting tablecloths is not that different from painting a canvas. The stretched canvas is usually made from calico as is the unpainted tablecloth. Preparing for Yair’s Barmitzvah…

Number 115: La Coco Beach Hotel Mauritius!  An all-expenses paid holiday for two, our first alone since our children were born!! How so? In January 1996 Ray’s 13th Anniversary gift to me was going to be a subscription to Femina Magazine. But I postponed subscribing until March – a competition month with the possibility of…

Number 114: Which Country do your Direct Ancestors come from? Many Countries! I know about Lithuania and South Africa on my father’s side. Babylon / Iraq; Israel; Spain; Portugal; France; Italy; Belgium; Germany; Austria; Netherlands, Curacao; Suriname and Brazil are the main one’s on my mother’s! Seems to me that people in previous Centuries saw…

Number 113: What is a Hamburger? Where is Hamburg?  Turns out these questions have more than one answer.  And: Are Hamburgers Jewish?  Well  – they can be!   “Ham” does not sound Jewish!! Hamburgers, the food, originate from Hamburg, Germany. Burg means fortress. Ham’s origin is not definitively known, but no connection to “pork”!! It may mean…