@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] On occasions, according to some mental health experts, it can be good to just do nothing. Or the very bare minimum in any case. Indeed, the deft Dutch have a term for it: niksen, which literally means ‘to...
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The ability to say 'no' when needs be is very useful. Alas, not everybody can actually say it, especially in Colombia.
Continuar leyendoThe ability to say 'no' when needs be is very useful. Alas, not everybody can actually say it, especially in Colombia.
Continuar leyendo@radiobrendan 2015. Best summed up as a year I’d largely like to scrap from the memory bank. Any time you lose a loved one is never easy; this is made even more difficult when it’s someone who left this earth way before her time, someone who had so much more to give....
Continuar leyendo@radiobrendan This blog tends not to do blatant advertising, but there are exceptions to that from time to time. And when it’s for a fun and, um, worthy cause, you could say that it’s almost obligatory to do so. You see, a few months back I had to make a ‘dash’ home to...
Continuar leyendo@radiobrendan Right, I knew there existed in Colombia a tiny segment of support for, to say the least, a less than glorious period of German history and the accompanying beliefs associated with it. However, I wasn’t aware that love of the ‘Fatherland’ here is...
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