Preparing for a trip away is both exciting and draining. There’s so often so much to do, depending on the trip of course. One must get the tickets, make sure the travel documents you need are correct, pack the right sort of clothes for the destination, secure the house for your absence, and so the list continues. It’s almost exhausting just preparing for the trip, much less the challenge of travelling. But whenever we do plan and prepare we always have the destination in

It always places a smile on my face to see the devoted affection that stems from young love. There is a vibrancy and affection that clings to the other almost as if there is a sense that if it didn’t it would be lost. The lovers crave to spend as much time as possible together, and when that is not physically possible, we have any number of other means. It is no longer a letter, but a phone call, a text, video chat, multi-media platforms, and other technological marvels th

I recently wondered whether we’ve lost the art of having a creative imagination. I thought that to be the case, until I watched my 3-year-old grand-daughter at play. She would sit on my motorbike and pretend she was me or dress up in costumes she devised pretending she was a character from her favourite television shows. She’d play with dolls, doing all sorts of interesting things she had seen on a kid’s friendly iPad. My hope for her generation was reinstated as I watche

We seem to be losing the idea of saving for something we need or desire. Today, its all about how quickly you can acquire it, and who’s going to be the quickest to provide you with the money. The idea of saving up for something, of persevering with what you have until you can afford something better, seems to be gone. We live in a world that tells us our immediate desires can be satisfied now, why wait. But you know, when we had to save up for something, when we had to wa