The world changed while I was not looking. In a flash, artificial intelligence (AI) was melded to real life. Of course, there was warning, but
Tag: Reinvention
The many roads that take you there
Escape from lockdown: Travelling in the time of the coronavirus With #him, I have spent the past three weeks meandering 3,500km back and forth across the
10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes
For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and
Giving wings to scraps and threads
Multi-talented Kathryn Harmer Fox has found her way to fibre art. Or maybe fibre art has found its way to her. Either way, we are
What we need now is kindness
Where is the acknowledgement that we are frightened and in pain? Why are we not comforting each other? This reality demands a new kind of
Facing up to the new normal
If you’ve wondered why and how to make masks, then this post is for you. Making facemasks almost broke me. Apparently I saw the need
The mask makers of Rhodes Village and Zakhele
Celebrating ordinary people emerging as heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic Long before the dust started settling on the mask-or-not debate, people in Rhodes Village and
Clothes with Karma in the time of the virus
We touch in so many ways, just not physically Tessa is at the garden gate and we lunge at each other. I want to hug
The power of needle and thread
The art of sewing is stepping out of the closet as we take a stand against mindless consumption of damaging fast fashion. The need and
A Durban thrift adventure
Durban was always going to be my big challenge a mere four-something months into my year of not buying new clothes. A visit to my
