@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] ‘Why try to be somebody you’re not?’ That epigraph has been brought to you by the soft drink, Sprite. OK, the brand wasn’t the first to use it, but I do recall its TV advert — commercial if you prefer — from the early […]
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] Sustainable tourism. Measured by how most travel to a tourist spot — saying nothing of where they stay, what they do and eat — and using carbon neutral as the measure, the term sustainable tourism is really...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] Almost all of us have felt this frustration at some stage. You get what you think is a good deal at the time but later you discover it could have been so much better. In most cases, brooding over it is of little...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] Wouldn’t it be great if we could all (mis)manage our financial affairs in a similar way to many countries? That is, not only be in debt but continuously add to it, giving back only a fraction of the total...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] As we grow older, we tend to become more comfortable in ourselves and what we’re about. Manifested positively, it means we’re less impressionable, less open to malignant manipulation. Negatively, it...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] In Bogotá’s perpetual Corner Bar barrio, I explained how a working-class drinking culture permeates the neighbourhood I frequent the most in the Colombian capital. As somebody who grew up in rural Ireland, this is quite familiar to me. One big difference, though, is that […]
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio version of this blog story click here.] Of late, I’ve found myself reading books — both fiction and non-fiction — that, on the whole, are probably more negative than positive. Some might say, then, literature that properly reflects reality....
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] For most of us, although tragically not all, dealing with the death of our parents is as unavoidable as our own death. Same body, different mind While the actual passing of a mother and/or a father is, I can only imagine at this stage, […]
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog, together with the videos mentioned below, here.] As an online content creator — no sniggering — seeing what kind of material attracts more clicks than others is both interesting and puzzling. And no, after over eleven...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] Having more efficient, simpler processes is something the majority of us no doubt desire. In the ten years plus I’ve been using the services of Migración Colombia, its processes have become more...
