two-for tuesday

Tuesday is generally my least favorite day of the week – yup, even worse than Monday. On Monday I still have a little optimism and energy left over from the weekend, but on Tuesday that’s all gone and I’m facing four more days before the next one. A...

if at first you don’t succeed

Last spring, freshly returned from two weeks in Cape Town and the Western Cape, I stumbled upon an old documentary about the Special Task Force, the South African Police Service’s answer to the SAS. The guys featured in the documentary were like human tanks....