Rant & Rave: Vintage Lifestyle Loving

So, I’m so proud of myself I can hardly contain it.

I, upon the advice of a very dear friend, approached an online magazine and asked if I could contribute an article to their magazine and they agreed. The magazine’s editor Nicole Carr, was the loveliest person I’ve dealt with in a while, not only did she grant me (an unknown little aspirant) the opportunity to write for her magazine but she actually seemed to really like my writing, which by the way is always a shock to me because I think it has the tendency to come across as a tad formal and rigid.
So anyway, I wrote and submitted my article with a skeptic frame of mind. I wondered if she would like it, if it would fit the magazine and what they do and write about and to my surprise she emailed me telling me how good my article was. After this I had to wait for the publication to come out, still I was a bit doubtful of my abilities,  I thought that maybe by some chance my write-up would end up being put on the back burner, for lack of space or some other little thing, but it didn't  They published it and I know it may not seem like that big a deal to a lot of you, but it meant the world to me.

Thanks, to Lulu for the push, to Zizi for her input and to the Vintage Lifestyle Magazine team for considering me worthy. I hope the opportunity presents itself once more for me to once again work with them.

Here’s the link to the magazine, my article is on page 77; http://vintagelifestylemag.co.za/the-magazine/

Upward and onward!

Artist of the month - Napo Masheane

 

I remember the first time I heard a Napo Masheane poem, I may not remember the contents of said poem but, I remember her. Boisterous and proud, this woman spoke real, tackling with great ease issues that live constantly within every woman’s realm of thought. She penned some of my favourite stage performances, with titles such as “My Bum is Genetic, Deal with It”, “Hair and Comb” and “Fat Lady Sings” being amongst my all-time favourites. Her work speaks in an easily understandable, gravely familiar voice and sings the praises of women all the while shouting the importance of self-love and self-appreciation all these wrapped neatly in a humorous tone.
Her poetry does the very same thing and some of my favourites include “Fat Love” a beautiful love song to the odd one out my favourite verse reads;



The girls of Mollo: The woman in me

    
 

Napo and the Fat Black girls



This is the Genetic bum you've heard may a story of



The cast of Hair and comb



"They named you fat to own your pride
And lied
So that you can die
To break your stride
And called you not good enough"

She has penned two Anthologies titled “The Caves Speak in Metaphors” and “Fat Songs for my Girlfriends”

This phenomenal playwright, poet, director, producer and performer is not only a tremendous talent but, also a genuinely great person, I am of cause highly bias when it come to her, seeing as she was my boss for just over a year and as far as bosses go, she was the best.

For more on Napo follow this link http://www.iwebserv.net/#!__napo-masheane