Karin Marais

Karin writes about community and the small things that make a neighbourhood feel like home: who to ask, where to go, how a place looks after its people. She weighs any choice by how it sits within the community around it, and she trusts an honest word over any advertisement. Her pieces are warm and full of local names, the sort of thing shared across a fence over coffee. A place, she reckons, is judged by how it treats the people in it.