Healthy Living In Italy
Italy is often undervalued by Northern Europeans, when considering a second home in the south. Not only is there a language obstacle, but the cultural shock of the loud extroverted Italian personality must also be taken into account. As a British acquaintance once disparagingly told me: “Where there is one Italian, there are one hundred […]
Recognising milk intolerance in a baby.
Being the one eyed king in the kingdom of the blind may sound empowering, but nothing could be further from the truth. Imagine governing a kingdom where any order you issue is met with stumbling, bumping into things, skepticism, argument and physical injury on the part of your subjects. The feeling of frustration deeply seated […]
A book and its cover.
A lot of propaganda has been put out into the world in the past years by the advertising industry creating what many would agree is an unhealthy body image in the mind of young adults. Glorifying skinniness, youth, heavy makeup, expensive clothes, and sink white teeth, the industry all but tells you that if you […]
What I Love About Ireland
Lately I have grown weary of the dreariness of the North, as well as the claustrophobic isolation created by living on a small island, way out in the country. But I would like to make one thing very clear: I absolutely and wholeheartedly love Ireland. I consider it a very beautiful and thoroughly decent place. […]
Playing the Victim
Whether it is by considering resigning from life and it lessons or simply by refusing to take any responsibility for the situations in which they find themselves, I am seeing a lot of people giving into the temptation of “playing the victim” in their lives. Other people don’t treat them fairly; their work is depressing; […]
Southern Living
Recently I have come to a very important decision. I have decided to uproot our family from its settled northern way of life and to move us, at least for the time being, to Spain. At first I had my doubts, I dilly-dallied, I even considered that I could be losing my mind. After all […]
Emotional programming
As Frank Outlaw wisely said, we should all be careful to mind our thoughts as they become our words. We should all mind our words as they become our actions and create our habits. In fact I would go so far as to argue that very often it is these habits that destroy our health […]
The Muscatel Grape
This December my family went on a trip to Spain. We visited Barcelona, Valencia, Ibiza and Alicante, and eventually decided to settle in a coastal town called Javea. One of the most exciting things about this visit has been exploring how the food and the gastronomy are different from what we had grown accustomed to […]