Yes, I wanted to write how your grandmothers bunion becomes your mother’s bunion and then your bunion: in the battle of the toes the bunion always wins and your little toe is left with a callus… Not everybody needs or opts for surgery making inventive ways of living with it a challenge- like toe spreaders, […]
Marthie
When Busy Women Pause
I am so super excited I don’t know where to start… ‘Winston and Marthie’ Live Friday Sessions: we are singing Afrikaans cover songs while we wait to see if ‘Katjiepiering & Anys’ has been approved for the Woordfees(who says waiting can’t be fun?), ‘the Neal Stacey Story’ song about his journey with TB is dropping(being […]
No Strings Attached
What if what you saw was only half of what is true. The thing is with problems-they never go away. They grow new ones and then you have to be thankful for them because this year’s problems are not the same as last years problems. It is different problems… Last year you were dreaming of […]
Make your lemon smile
I have lot’s of them: in-fact too many… lemons. And I think God knows my green fingers are challenged because ever so often he scoots a couple of lemons out of the tree so I would notice it. It is time to take the lemon home and make something with it. Limoncello. I once flew […]
It is like shaking hands with the World
What better place to start a conversation about Africa than in Africa in a room somewhere in Stellenbosch at the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography? Where you reach out and touch Maputo, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Canada, Australia and even Mexico to just name a few on a Tuesday night in June. And the message is […]
The blooming writing is on the wall
Peonies! I love them: so bright pink(or soft pink) and the first thing that blooms after a minus 40 C Winter in Saskatchewan, Canada(besides the chives and Lily of the Valley) Their scent will fill a room.I fell in love with them -when we had the four distinct seasons in Canada: of which Spring was […]
The day pianos learned how to fly
I will be ready to pilot them….
Why Music matters?
Because it changes peoples perceptions and old ways, it brings diverse people together and creates new opportunities to start again. Music is the Hope we need in today’s times….
The First words from the new website!
Whoohoo! hope I survive the ordeal of creating a new website! When all I wanted to do is write songs and play piano a lot of things followed me along the way- new friends and new places. Now it is time for sharing and giving back! Thank you xxx Marthie
