09 Mar Call of Duty

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...

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04 Mar Lots of time to grow up

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...

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01 Mar Preference IS discrimination

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...

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27 Feb One of Those Weeks

  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...

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19 Feb Legal But Not Possible

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...

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12 Feb Children of God?

  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...

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26 Jan A Spade is a Spade is a Spade

The story of the 16 year old lesbian, who earlier this month was attacked by two boys in a Hamrun square, caused public uproar… and rightly so. When the story broke, it was reported that the attack happened on a bench, and that the police had...

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24 Jan Life in the Supermarket Lane -guest blog

  This article is a guest blog written by an anonymous author whom I don't know. She goes by the name of Virginia or ginantonic. Every time, her pieces have me in fits of laughter , nodding in agreement, or shaking my head in dismay.  Now...

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