Arja Salafranca

There are many firsts beyond the obvious. The first time he comes bounding through your front window wearing a leather jacket at the start...

I left my cellphone at home. Racing out to an appointment mid-afternoon, and then I was off to a writers symposium that began at five, ther...

The constellation looked like a small cluster of cotton wool through the telescope. “Relax your eyes,” said astronomer Vincent Nettman. I di...

SITTING in the Bioscope in Joburg’s CBD took me back. Beigebrown leatherette chairs, hard neon lighting, and an industrial grittiness to the...

Strange things happen when you go on leave. You come back married, with a brand new name and absolutely no idea who your new husband might b...

There's the old saying that you cannot step in the same river twice. It’s credited to Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher who lived from 540...