My daughter has just begun to babysit and the other night the two adorable little girls she was trying to put to bed begged her to read endless stories. Finally, she bribed them with an original. When she told it to me later she said she tried to tell them The Little Mermaid but she couldn't remember it all. As I listened to her version of the...
Being an ex-pat for nearly 16 years now, I sometimes feel that I belong somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic but not on either shore. The differences between the cultures glare just as brightly as they always did and I am always keen to step into the shoes of the foreigner.
Take the May Bank Holiday in Britain, the second one. Wouldn't it...
My week began with a feature in the Sunday Observer about the stunted anti-trafficking strategy in Britain. As the co-ordinator of the Symposium on Women, Human Rights and Prostitution which was a year-long debate involving stakeholders from all sides of this polarised issue, I was particularly dismayed to see that things have not moved on...
I was very excited to be asked to mentor a tea merchant. I consider myself an avid tea enthusiast. Or so I thought until I met Ann Davis of The Tea Experience. She greeted me at her office on our first day asking, of course, 'what type of tea would you like to drink?' Having met a biomedical researcher from Sheffield Hallam University...