After twenty-odd years of hard work and development, having made many mistakes along the way and spending a fortune, the time has come to leave and start an independent life. But the future is uncertain, laden with possible stalls, failures and breakdowns, each one with the potential to render the whole thing a massive failure. I’m talking about the James…
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Among many things that the ongoing pandemic has changed is shopping habits. Closing down most non-essential shops during lockdown forced many previously reluctant customers to do their shopping on the internet and many of them became ‘new-born’ online shoppers. Unlike in most brick-and-mortar shops, where you pay and take the purchased goods home, those bought online have to be delivered…
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It feels a bit like deja vu, a sad repetition of last Christmas, cancelled at short notice. Are we facing a return to Zoom calls, online Masses and the like? I hope not. But the recent rapid changes in the Covid landscape have brought back some of my memories of the time when it all started. A steep learning curve…
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After a long illness, Moira arrived at the Gates of Heaven. While she was waiting for St Peter to greet her, she peeked through the Gates. She saw a beautiful banquet table. Sitting all around were her parents and all the other people she had loved and who had died before her. They saw her and began calling greetings to…
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‘Gott mit uns’ – ‘God is with us’ was reportedly inscribed on the belts of the German soldiers invading Poland in 1939, according to my late grandmother’s stories. The genocidal occupation followed, highlighted by one of the most infamous death camps in Oswiecim, better known by its German name Auschwitz. The ‘Gott mit uns’ ideology comes to my mind when…