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09 Oct There’s no such thing as a [glutin] free lunch

Posted at 12:07h in Uncategorized

Imagine washing your hands between preparing your kids’ sandwiches and your own, not ever licking your fingers after handing them cake and having your own separate butter tub and toaster. That’s what Joanne Scerri Valentino, 41, once a foodie, has had to do since she was diagnosed with celiac disease nine years ago. Although daunted by the discovery, the...

29 Sep Drawing The Line

Posted at 10:30h in Uncategorized

First published on TimesofMalta.com Sep 20th. I still can’t get my head around the fact that the YouTube broadcast of a cheap, sorry excuse for a short movie, one that was so poorly produced that it made me break out in hives, caused the murder of...

11 Sep The Cost of Being Right

Posted at 10:45h in Uncategorized

When she whom we dare not mention by name, chanted Glory Glory Alleluia celebrating Dom Mintoff’s death, many, even die-hard Nationalists, said that they felt disgusted. Surprisingly, even those who never had a good word to say about the man were suddenly of the opinion that...

01 Sep A Silent Scream

Posted at 11:42h in Uncategorized

This true story was first published in Pink Magazine August 2012 The one thing Kathryn Fenech Soler could always depend on is the one thing she’s losing for good – her voice. Alison Bezzina reads her lips to shout out her story about what happens when someone cannot communicate anymore. You...

10 Aug Pathetically Sad Arguments

Posted at 15:15h in Uncategorized

The worst kind of let downs are the ones you walk straight into. They’re the ones your better judgement warns you about but you just don’t listen. And this is exactly what I did with the new IVF Bill. I had convinced myself that the PN –...

05 Aug Kinky Suspenders

Posted at 10:26h in Uncategorized

What do confetti at weddings, clowns at circuses, promises during election campaigns, and suspended sentences in Malta, have in common? I know, I know...

29 Jul For The People By The People

Posted at 11:28h in Uncategorized

Last week the case of 10-year-old Ella Bridge who for two whole years had been in the midst of a jurisdiction and custody battle between her parents, finally ended. Though the AG will be appealing the decision, last week the presiding Judge decided in Ella’s favour,...

24 Jul The Golden Window

Posted at 19:03h in Uncategorized

This story was first published in Pink Magazine of July 2012. Click here for the feature how it appeared. Part of Elizabeth Hair’s skull may still be sitting in a fridge, waiting to be reinserted. But after suffering a stroke that left her paralysed, the young woman is already walking...

22 Jul Seen And Not Heard

Posted at 10:05h in Uncategorized

As a young pupil who attended a strict, traditional Church school, I remember very often being told that 'children should be seen and not heard'. Probably because my parents were never the unyielding tyrant types, this phrase was hardly ever used at home, so, whenever someone...

19 Jul Blame or Shame

Posted at 09:41h in Uncategorized

A man has died in unusual circumstances. He was nothing less than a human being like you and me, and yet he no longer speaks, breathes, lives. His mother is heartbroken, his siblings are devastated and his friends are inconsolable. Whether he was murdered and...