A windy day

Today was a windy day in Cape Town. People here call the wind the “Cape Doctor” because the wind, when it blows hard, as it often likes to do, takes the dirty air away. Today there was the windy doctor, and clouds poured from the top of the mountain that towers over Cape Town and […]

The Girl With the Golden Shoes

She was the girl with the golden shoes. She liked to swing dance to jazz music, and when she danced her shoes left behind streaks of gold paint on the dance floor. She danced at a place called the Mercury Café, which is a dream shared by swing dancers every Thursday night. Inside, little red […]