Mohawks and Manes

BY FLORENCE BETT The plan for Muna’s hair was to have no plan, really. I simply wanted to maintain the mohawk she was born with. (Hang on. Is the right word for it ‘mohawk’? Give me a sec I look it up. I’ll be back in a jiff, don’t leave,

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Wallace and Eden Leather

BY FLORENCE BETT MARCH ‘17 Wallace asked me to meet him at the gate of Toyota, the one on Church Road in Westy. We agreed to meet at 11.30AM. As I stood at that gate waiting for him to show, I felt in my bones the tingle of a being

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Launch of Craft It :: Website and Brand

BY FLORENCE BETT Heiya. Sorry but there’s little pomp and fanfare to go with this launch. I’d also expected more pizzazz — I don’t know, some traditional dancers, fireworks, cocktails, a speech and maybe some intros and tears. But this

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Law #35: Master the Art of Timing

I joined a pyramid scheme in August 2013. I didn’t know it was a pyramid scheme at the time. When my big sister invited me for the presentation, she was cagey about what it was about. “Just make sure to come. Please. It’ll just be 30 minutes,” she said on

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Culture Club

I realized that GB was starting something when, on Friday, he told me that he would be attending a meeting at church on Sunday. It was Friday, late morning. The meeting at church was on Sunday afternoon. It was too early in the day to give me a heads-up, no?

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Good cop, bad cop

Tamara Nerima wishes she would live in her son’s head for just a day. Just one. Nate is three. Tamara, every so often, posts her convos with Nate on her Facebook wall. (Do we still call them Walls?) These snippets of convo give us – her pals – glimpses into

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