Archive for April 2015
The shocking truth about the Euro
Shock, horror. The euro has now fallen well below the U.S. dollar. A chocolate euro now costs more than the real coin is worth. As Zimbabwe abandoned the local dollar and went over to the multi-currency system in 2009, the euro became legal tender. But shops don’t want it, they don’t see it often, the…
Read MoreBringing out our dead
Unless a demented co-pilot plunges his Airbus into the French alps with the loss of all on board, or Jihadists decapitate or burn alive their captives, we seldom reflect on news reports of horrific death. For most people, if they see a body at all, it is of a dog run over by a car…
Read MoreConsequences of loss
I became acquainted with loss at an early age. Both my parents died when I was a child, my mother before my father. My father had once forgotten to collect me from the infants’ boarding school where I had been sent at the age of five. Six decades later – three decades after independence –…
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