Birthdays conjure up images of balloons, cake and thoughtfully wrapped presents. At what age does one get really excited about her/his birthday? I mean really excited! Until a child is around 5 years old, I suspect it is the parents (more so the mother perhaps?) who are the ones looking forward to the celebrations. For …
One Solstice
“Age is just a number,” it has been said “It’s a stage of the mind”. I have long subscribed to this view and even now convince myself each night before going to bed that this is so. However, when I start to go down the stairs for my first cup of tea each morning, protesting …
Budding game changers
This week I was delighted to learn that my eight-year old granddaughter and her best friend had produced their first-ever school newsletter. Well researched, the contents covered diversity and inclusion, nature and ecology, acceptance of others, school decorum and punctuality and yes, humor! Enough to cause any (grand-)parent’s heart to swell with pride. The item …
Dead right.
Arundhati Roy used the character of an inquisitive little girl in her Man Booker Prize winner 1997 novel The God of Small Things to pose a question that resurfaced again two decades later in her novel The Ministry of Untold Happiness, wherein the central character inquires “Where do old birds go to die? Why don’t …
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