Discipline is the name of the game; nothing important  can be achieved without discipline -  self - discipline, as well as national discip...

  My grandfather's mother was a 50 year old widow when she decided to leave the small home town in north-east Romania and try her luck i...

  Election campaigns resemble more and more a political circus, and regardless of the final result,  we feel relieved when it's all over...

  First rain - torrential but refreshing, and much needed. I've received a nice present - a special winter blanket; love it, love at fir...

Sometimes we learn from the media about the death of a person; no cause of death mentioned (usually at the request of the family). Even if w...

  Update on covid-19: easing of lockdown restrictions starting with this week , encouraging news on vaccines. However, the overall atmospher...

  Still on Lockdown. I don't know how long covid-19 will be with us. (A climate activist claims - for as long as Climate Change crisis ...

The other day, I was browsing through my old, analog (non- digital) pictures, focusing on the bad ones (blurred, failed contrast - too dark,...

  The 25 hours of Fasting  are over.   Hopefully, Fast and Prayer have got me a good final sealing in the Book of Life for the New Year. The...

After retirement, our GP and her husband (also a doctor) moved to another city; sort of a new beginning. A few years later, the husband d...

If and when  I happen to dream during my sleep, it's usually about family members that are no longer with us. They talk, sometimes wee...

* Berries are considered superfood,  for they're packed with nutrients and anti- oxidant elements. We greatly enjoy them in the...

I've recently come across this new term - coronialism - which refers to the danger of a new order, a new society being established -  ...

Uman is a town in central Ukraine, on the banks of the Umanka river.  During the recent decades, the town has become known for the burial...