January 2006 It was one of the coldest nights in January, not only because the temperature was at an all-time low, but also because for most, it was the first day of work after the holiday season. The mental cold shower I woke up to that morning...
Has it just dawned on us that women are still almost invisible in top posts? Why suddenly all this pomp and circumstance about women’s quotas? And more importantly, why are we still resisting them? Whilst quotas might not be the ideal solution, most of the developed world, including...
Last month I did the unthinkable - for the first time in months I took a day off work. I mean a whole full day of leave for no particular reason whatsoever. The intention was to dilly dally and take things easy, but true to my...
Yesterday afternoon, I was shopping at a busy cosmetics outlet in St. Julian's, and whilst I was discretely rummaging through the "first signs of aging" section, someone caught my attention. She had long glossy hair with streaky blonde strands, sparkly lips, dangling earrings, and a gold...
I tried to resist, honestly I tried, but then Fr. Joe Borg wrote another blog about single adoptions, and here I am fuming. For those not in the loop of this saga please refer to this link for a summary, as well as Fr. Joe Borg's...
This week was one of those weeks - following my previous two blogs about adoption, I suddenly became flavour or the month (as Tanja Cilia so eloquently put it). I was also preparing to take part in my first half marathon, and as fate would have...
I have to say that the interest generated by my previous blog (about single adoptions from Ethiopia), and the feedback to the subsequent news report by Claudia Calleja on the same subject, left me pleasantly surprised. Honestly, I didn’t think people would care so much about...
Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm going to assume that you're one of those people who don't give a hoot about same sex marriage. I'm also going to assume, that whilst you don't mind two consenting adults getting married regardless of their gender, you...
and it's not about the Eurovision...
Photo credit - www.invisiblechildren.com Condemning violence is just lip service whilst changing the law is a long shot...