Category: Family & Parenting

DRESS SENSE EXPLAINED

How odd, I thought, as I chanced upon a vocation that I had never before heard of. The smartly dressed young woman at the adjacent business fair stand explained her mission in life. If I required her services, she would accompany me to the city’s department stores. During […]

MANNERS MAKETH MAN

Where and when appropriate I greet a lady by the simple courtesy of raising the back of her hand to near my lips. For many, it is a first experience that has so far brought pleasure. I wonder how many women have had a hat raised in greeting […]

There is Life after Death

UNCONTROLLED NEWS: The patient woke up several hours before she was disconnected from life support. A 32-year-old woman in the UK woke up a few hours before she was taken off life support, surprising her family and doctors, My London reports. Emma Price’s brain was damaged after she […]

Herbalism Cures Where Conventional Medicine Fails

FREE CITIZENS NEWS FUNDED BY READERS: Viewed as a financial threat to conventional healthcare services alternative medicine are making a comeback. Furthermore, centuries-old and tested traditional healthcare methods such as herbalism show positive results. Herbalist remedies succeed where Big Pharma healthcare ~ in which the elite invest and the […]

Marriage Laid Bare

There once was a man and a woman who had been married for more than 60 years. They talked about everything. They kept no secrets from each other… except that the old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she cautioned her husband […]

My Darling Daughter

MAKE READING COMPASSIONATE AGAIN My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: […]

SOME SOCIAL RULES THAT MAY HELP YOU

BEING NICE PAYS BIG DIVIDENDS: 1. Don’t call someone more than twice continuously. If they don’t pick up your call, presume they have something important to attend to. 2. Return money that you have borrowed even before the person who borrowed you remembers or asks for it. It […]

Are You a 1 Per Cent Minority?

Photo: Esther Collings and her husband Ronald were Australia’s oldest living couple in 2018. Globally, 99% of people born between 1930 and 1946 have passed to the other side. If you were born in this period, your ages range between 77 and 93 years old (a 16-year age […]