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I would not consider myself a poet by any stretch of the imagination. Although I am very taken with rhymes. While scrolling through my...

This is one of those rare encounters that could only have taken place in the twenty first century. A few months ago on twitter, on the...

Growing up, many of my friends did not understand what it meant to be a grandchild. Their grandparents had either passed away or were in...

I haven’t done one of these in a while, there is alot that has been happening around the Internets (still not sure why it’s plural but...

Schrill Spanish notes from the band could be heard from the street outside. The smell of fresh baked bread and gooey French cheeses also...

I had heard about Kenyan environmental campaigner and human rights activist Dr Wangari Maathai before she died yesterday. Whilst I had...

If we are to believe popular science, we are who we are because of our genes. Our appearance, our character traits, susceptibility to...

The 14th century Knights who founded this little blink-and-you’ll-miss-it-place could not have imagined that in 2011 their little burg...

Since moving to Germany in 2009, I have been privileged to meet so many wonderful people and Gen Yers from all walks of life, who are in...

Sometimes you have no idea where life will take you. Back in 2010 I was in Munich, having been invited to attend the DLDwomen conference...

“Creative imagination awakens early. As children, we are all ‘makers’. Later, as a rule, we’re broken of the habit; so the art of being a...

I recently embraced my inner streber or geek by heading to re:publica, one of, if not the, leading European conference on society, social...

On my way to my first ever NEXT in a huge former power station in the no-man’s land known as Gleis Drei-Eck, the first thing that struck...

Fluoro green and gold headdresses worn by bum-shaking Barbadians. Kitschy Hungarian folk dancers calling themselves “The Moustache”....

Being stuck inside Station for NEXT day 2 on a stunning Spring day was a little unfair yet the quality of the speakers more than made up...

Carl Gustav Jung, a psychiatrist and the founder of the methodology of analytical psychology (among other things), stated that in order...

“Creative imagination awakens early. As children, we are all ‘makers’. Later, as a rule, we’re broken of the habit; so the art of being a...

Two years ago this week, I happened to be in Tokyo and went to Ueno Park,cherry blossom central. I marvelled at how nature’s wonders are...

I recently embraced my inner streber or geek by heading to re:publica, one of, if not the, leading European conference on society, social...

As brick-like cellphones, Sony Walkmans and Casio Synthesisers of the 1980s are all but relegated to the gadget graveyard, Gen-Y...