What is the Weather Like?

What is the Weather Like?

In some parts of the world, the common conversation starter is the weather. Reference will be made to the sun (or lack of), the wind (the strength of), the rain (abundance of), the cloud cover, the cold (extent of), whatever, and once that is out of the way, we can...
Taking a Beating

Taking a Beating

Confession time: how many readers have been beaten in their life? How many were beaten when they were at school? How many can still feel the effects of it? Of course, at the time, it may well have been considered a badge of honour among one’s peers, and even now some...
Who Will Win?

Who Will Win?

The soccer World Cup is upon us, big time! And the big question is this, obviously: who will win the coveted trophy? Forty-eight teams have qualified for the Finals but the simple truth and reality is that only one team will win while forty-seven will lose. So, who...
All We Are Saying

All We Are Saying

In 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded a song that soon became an anthem for the anti-war movement in America as well as a commercial hit – ‘Give Peace a Chance’. It begins with, and frequently repeats, the line “Everybody’s talking about” and goes on to speak of...
Aren’t We Forgetting Something?

Aren’t We Forgetting Something?

There is an old joke: “As we get older, three things happen. First, our memory goes. Second, … I can’t remember the other two.” Have we ever felt like that? Have we forgotten things, important things at that? Children are very good at forgetting things! Perhaps it...