Switzerland: Then & Now When I first came to Switzerland on a visit in 1969, there was a population of 5.5 million, 89% of...
Fragile Frames Don’t Frolic Oh, the pleasure of plunging into retirement, with all the vitality of a drowsy sloth. Over the past fifteen years,...
Christmas Online It’s Christmas again, a time of year when, regardless of religious inclination (or not), we may become a little nostalgic for our...
Can’t Wait for Christmas Christmas 1972, I was staying with my husband at his parents’ home in Switzerland, for the first time. Accustomed as...
Trash the Cash About 6,000 years ago, before money, banks and greed, people bartered by exchanging a chicken for example, for a bucket. However,...
The Final Fulfilment Walter turned off the computer on his desk in Accounts for the last time, stood up, put on his jacket and...
The Value of Life During my time in the local hospital in a single room I felt mainly very dead. However, during infrequent moments...
IT CAN CREEP UP ON YOU! During the past twelve months, I unpredictably joined the ranks of thousands of affected people, as I succumbed...
Sound versus Noise For many years I lived in an apartment in a small rural compound, inhabited by traditional families. With my own son...