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The problem with love

The problem with love is that we want to wrap in a nice package and put a little bow on it and say, "There, that is love," only to find that for most of our lives we have no clue what love is and how to find it. There is no problem with love, except the ones we create. We watch romantic movies with annoying and ridiculous scripts, written by people who are even more clueless about love than we are, and we think love is drama, break up and make up, and all those other unnecessary things in between. But what is love after all? It's not grand gestures and continuous big moments. In the beginning of a new relationship, there are butterflies in your stomach, increased heart rates, the excitement, the bliss and the magic of a new found love. You literally feel as if you're walking on air. You're being wined and dined and taken to exciting places and introduce to new experiences. The world looks beautiful and rosy and perfect; and you're discovering new words for hap...

Rest in Peace, Celeste Phillips

Thursday the first of July started like any other ordinary day. I was planning my radio program that was already very close to the deadline. I was cooking that long-anticipated beef stew and enjoying the smells wafting from my kitchen. The day felt good. And then I went on Facebook. Not even halfway through to check up on the status of friends, the status on Nikki Coward's page stopped me in my tracks and ripped through my heart. Celeste Phillips has died. For a long moment, I stopped breathing as I tried to absorb this heartbreaking news. Have you ever experienced one of those moments where you can't think and your mind is left completely blank because what you're reading is so incomprehensible? Celeste has died. I can not accept that she's gone. Celeste was too full of life and love. It feels impossible that someone who gave so much and loved so hard could just be gone. It doesn't feel right that I'm talking about her in the past tense. Nothing about this fe...

Do you see the future?

In the previous century, we could tell our children to go to school, study hard and get a job. And it worked out exactly that way. But that approach is no longer working. Now we must teach our children to become problem solvers and independent thinkers. The challenge is how do we as parents move away from our last century thinking to teach our children how to survive in the twenty-first century ? Our children are growing up in a world that's vastly different from the one that we grew up in. We didn't have internet and cellphones, there was no Google, Facebook, or WhatsApp. We didn't have to deal with cyberbullies. We had to deal with the real flesh and blood bully who would beat you up and terrorise you, and that was bad enough. But he or she had a name and a face. We definitely didn't have to deal with Covid19 and people close to you and across the world dying. We also could find a job much easier. All we had to do was read and write, send our CV off an...

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