Over the years I have developed interesting connections with some of the people I meet along my running route. In my mind I always call them, “ The Usual Suspects” because of the regularity with which I bump into them. I bet they must also have a name for me. Some have become friends because we […]
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Naomi Osaka is a professional tennis champion ranked No.2 in the world in women’s tennis. The news that Naomi had refused to give press interviews during the French Open in May of this year and had therefore opted out of the tournament came as a bombshell. Something in me understood her though. I felt that there was […]
Last year when the Coronavirus hit, it made the daily headlines. We breathed, ate and slept the virus. One reporter said that the virus will only disappear with the next big news. I want to believe that the Meghan Markle and Prince Harry (the Sussexes) interview with Oprah Winfrey has somehow upstaged the virus. The […]
Time stopped for Miss Havisham or shall we say she was frozen in time. Miss Havisham is a character in a Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations. The novel is written in first person narration and Pip is the narrator as well as the main character. We therefore experience the story through Pip’s own perception of events. Miss […]
Last year when the world got hit by the Coronavirus pandemic, we all hoped that by this time it would be a thing of the past. We were positive that the virus would be contained. Little did we know that we would be hit by a second and even more virulent wave this year. […]
Parenting is never an easy job and what makes it worse is that there is no manual. Most times you learn as you go and then keep hoping and praying that the children will come out fine. My son must have been 10 years old when he taught me a valuable lesson. On that day I […]
Let me take a moment to say, hello and compliments of the new season to you my dear readers. I hope 2021 will be kind to you despite the relentless Coronavirus pandemic. My condolences go to those who lost their loved ones to the pandemic as well as other causes in 2020 and in these […]
Narrating. “In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. […]
Here we are, having survived the Coronavirus pandemic thus far and hopefully still be alive to celebrate Christmas and be ushered into 2021. It has been a hectic year for every one of us. However, our sense of humour did not desert us. People say that 2020 has only had three months, January, February and March […]
“The Stoning of Soraya M” is a 2008 movie based on a true story. I watched it many years ago and yet it still haunts me. An Iranian woman meets a journalist in a remote Iranian village and narrates to him how her innocent niece Soraya was brutally killed in 1986. The story goes like this, […]