Arundhati Roy's latest twitter update: "Regarding my voice: it's small, I know, but it's my own. Not yours."

I am not big on marriage and kids...but if this woman asked, I'd sign the dotted line in an instant. Man, I love her so much.

"let your body groove to the music"

Just finished watching the Madonna-special episode of "Glee".

Mmmm I'm in Vogroovalicious heaven.

Go, go watch it now. Even if you've never seen an episode of Glee before (umm living under a rock, much?), even if you think it's blasphemous for anyone to try and recreate the Madge Magic, even if you have epically slow internet (here's looking at you, Zambians)...I promise it might be the most entertaining and unforgettable 40minutes of telly you'll ever watch.

Ah, Madonna. What an absolute legend.

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself"

Happy Birthday Madiba! 92. Some men should be immortal.

May there some day be another who has your vision, your commitment to moral truth and your love for mankind. Long after you are gone, I hope your spirit lives on forever to remind us what is possible.

Today I will begin the journey that is Long Walk To Freedom. I hope I do it justice.

Summer 2010

There are some songs. I'll hear them for the first time and I will instantly know that even 20 years from now, if life is rough and you feel like there's no way out...hearing the song will remind me of better times and lift me up. I just found one of those. Putting it on a CD so that I can give it to my grandkids some day. Beautiful...



Happy Saturday love!!!

P.S. - Go Ghana/USA!!!! Really tough to make up my mind - both are underdogs, both are fighters, both feel like my own.

'Mornin Sunshine!

Apologies for not writing/updating in AGES! I promised a few readers of the blog that I wouldn't bore you guys with my World Cup updates - it's all over my facebook and twitter, so really it would be awfully redundant to make you suffer through all of it on here too. Lots of stuff to blame for my absence - WORLD CUP, travel, leaving Zambia :(((, moving into a new apartment, not-knowing-where-to-start, and sheer laziness. Many many apologies for that...but I am back in the US, land of the interesting and high-speed internet, so I promise to jump right back where I left off.

Speaking of jumping, I've gotten back into the habit of going to bed by 11:30PM and waking up nice and early. So many benefits - so much more time to get stuff done, I can fit in yoga in the morning, I have enough time for multiple cups of coffee before work, and I can watch lots of very handsome shirtless men prep themselves for their morning run by the river ^^ Only con I've managed to discover is that I get hungry lots in the morning. If anyone has any good ideas for post-breakfast snacks, do let me know.

To really wake up though, one needs a sick song that makes it worth getting up for. This is mine. I know some people like waking up to the sounds of French accordion, or folk guitar or Joni Mitchell...me? Not so much. This is my wakey-wakey song.


Righto so what are some of your early morning tunes? Any quirks? "Mmbop" as your alarm tone? Pavarotti while the coffee brews? Spice Girls while you brush your teeth? Go on, you can tell me :)

Third-cup-of-coffee-in-as-many-hours love xx

24 Hours

This is it. Our time has come. WE ARE READY!



Shosholozaaaaaa Africa!!

"You're the only family I need Jacky D"

BAHAHAHAHA *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHA.