Back-to-Back I once lived in an apartment with a small bedroom, converted into a tiny office, with a window overlooking the road and the...
PIZZAS À-GO-GO For many years I lived in a town of approximately 110-thousand inhabitants, and which today, harbours 44 registered pizzerias mostly with large...
Frank: Chapter One This is the true story of Frank, born in 1906, the youngest of three children, and their devout parents, who worshipped...
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...