Columns

Fighting Fair in the Bedroom…!
Most of the nastiest fights take place not on battlefields or war zones, but within a bedroom. Fights, which are
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September 25, 2024
History and Heritage Erased..!
And now that the elections are over, I was happy to hear the elected representatives are eager to get down
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September 23, 2024
Being Bored Again..!
After yesterday’s column on the Gift of Boredom, I decided to delve a little more on the benefits of being
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September 23, 2024
The Gift of Boredom..!
Tomorrow I’ll be addressing teachers and my talk is on ‘Fostering Creativity and Imagination,’ “What’s a gift we all have
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September 22, 2024
Don’t Close Your Gates..!
“The ultimate tragedy,” said Martin Luther King, “is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence
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September 21, 2024
Do You Dare Ask?
All the change for the better that’s happened in our world, is because people simply asked. Why am I a
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September 20, 2024
Stop Thinking, Start Thanking..!  
While walking in the park a few years ago I passed an elderly gentleman, a friend of mine, who seemed
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September 19, 2024
Home, Hearth and Heart..!
T’was just this morning I opened the paper and found a pretty model showing her dainty self on a dozen
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September 18, 2024
Distracted on Life’s Highway..!
 Once while driving down the highway I thought, “What a drive!” As I drove I noticed tire marks that crisscrossed
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September 17, 2024
Boiler Size, Bullying and Bluster..!
While others play badminton, watch Netflix, or read a book for ‘timepass’; a term I find quite cute, I’m caught
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September 16, 2024
 Your Family Dies With You..!
One day while sitting on the bench on the platform of a station, I saw the railways had put up
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September 14, 2024
Fooled by the Coffee Smell..!
In the last decade or so, I’ve become very conscious of the coffee I drink. It was not so always,
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September 14, 2024