There are times when we all simply just want to close our eyes and unwind. Briefly forget our worries or daily duties and activities. There are moments when all we desire is to disconnect and lose ourselves in a different world. At times, this is exactly what one needs, to sit back, leaving their ev...
A powerful and emotional tribute to Whitney Houston, a celebration of a life where music had no boundaries, a moving journey of a young unknown woman who rose to worldwide fame and whose life ended tragically early through drug use at the age of 48, alone in a bath when she was best known for strutt...
There is a Mother’s Day and a Father’s Day, but no Grandparents’ Day. Perhaps there should be. After all, when we reflect on the people who most influenced our childhood, who helped create our best memories, those lucky enough to have had and known grandparents often recollect times and occasions in...
I wonder, what makes a childhood memorable? Are there perhaps certain special events from our childhood, some taste of homemade food or a certain smell that reminds us of home?
We all have memories that we attribute to the first years of our lives. Most might have been forgotten over time, but the ...
The dawn of any new year often brings with it New Year’s resolutions. This is the tradition of determining to do or be something - or indeed, to not do or be something - usually to the betterment or advancement of oneself or others.
It may be to burn off some Christmas excess and get fit. It may be...
What defines the Christmas season? Is it tradition and custom, or perhaps decorations, lights, sparkle, and glitz? Is it the excitement of the build-up, or relaxing, taking time out from our busy lives for some home comforts? Is the holiday associated with jetting off to exotic climes, or is it abou...
You have been living a full, healthy, and normal life when it starts. It doesn’t announce itself – quite the opposite, in fact - and begins with a little memory loss, forgotten words, people, places. “I’m getting old,” you joke.
But that’s not all. Soon, routine elements of your daily life become t...
The journey was long towards what seems a bit of a progressive, long-awaited step into a more suitable, time-adequate move. A bid to allow fathers to become more involved with their own children and with the aim and hope to reduce the inequalities in childcare burden.
Switzerland, that tends to pri...
What does someone feel, when walking for the very last time onto a tennis court, for the final time taking part in a competition?
What are the feelings of someone who has the attention for a final time on him, after spending over 26 years in the world’s spotlights? When the lights switch off and he...
Death can elicit unusual responses. It can surprise us, transfix us, divide us, or unite us. The death of Queen Elizabeth II - a much-loved, much-admired, incredibly long-reigning monarch who served as sovereign of 32 states - certainly elicited a response, one felt at an individual, communal, natio...
