Senior Cares If You’re Bored Try This Dirty Job
2 July 2008, 23:11 No comments
In my work, I frequently find myself in a position of interviewing seniors about their daily lives and what interests and hobbies they have. Many times I am disappointed to hear: “I have no hobbies or any special interests or activities; mostly I just watch TV.”
For those whose lives have become empty due to lack [...]
Dads Seek Work-Life Balance
16 June 2008, 17:05 No comments
As Father’s Day approaches, a new online poll indicates that many Canadian dads feel that work is keeping them from living up to family commitments.
Some of the stress likely comes from working dads wanting to play a more active role in their children’s lives than their dads played in theirs.
“Your kids grow up fast,” Stewart [...]
Women Join Ranks Of Computer Gamers
9 June 2008, 18:06 No comments
Berlin, June 08: Computer gaming remains predominantly the realm of men.
But a closer look at the culture reveals some surprising trends among female gamers. True, many women have no interest in gaming. Many of those who do tend toward games like the Sims, a blockbuster that focuses on social relationships.
But there are many hardcore female [...]
Another lovely day in the park
5 April 2008, 06:06 No comments
NEW YORK–Sometimes they say it’s best not to look behind the curtain, not to get too close to the source of the magic.That’s what I was thinking recently after marvelling at the performances given by Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell in the revival of Sunday in the Park With George that’s currently dazzling Gotham audiences.Evans [...]
Gatland shows off a surplus of chips
2 April 2008, 23:11 No comments
Gatland was disappointed not to be a strong candidate when the All Black coachs job was being assessed late last year.
After solid work with Ireland, the Wasps and Waikato, the former hooker should have been strongly considered and when it was obvious the waters were running against him, he headed to Wales.
Good on him. Its [...]
A lesson to be learned
2 April 2008, 23:11 No comments
There I was a few days ago with my baby Ella strapped to my torso, my oldest sons skis over my shoulder and my hands full of ski passes, lesson cards, car keys, the house key, my cellphone and my gloves.
I was hobbling along an icy track trying to get my two sons to their [...]
Melvyn Bragg on suicide loss and his breakdown
1 April 2008, 06:06 No comments
Few would guess how hard-won Melvyn Bragg%26rsquo;s successful stability is. His CV
suggests a master of the balancing act: highly regarded author and respected
broadcaster, veteran radio presenter for the BBC and controller of arts for
LWT, equally at home in the House of Lords and working-class Cumbria, where
he was born in 1939 and still has a frequently [...]
The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul by Patrick French
1 April 2008, 06:06 No comments
The biggest surprise in Patrick French’s colourful biography of Sir Vidia
Naipaul is that its biographee should have allowed it to be published. For
it exposes him as an egotist, a domestic tyrant and a sadist to a degree
that would be farcical if it were not for the consequent distress suffered
over many years by his first wife, [...]
Office Politics Balance Is A Pipe Dream
30 March 2008, 00:12 No comments
Balance has been such a popular subject in the last five years that it’s become almost passé. But that hasn’t stopped many of us from continuing to pursue it.
The world has gotten smaller as it’s gone more global, and the pressure to do more, faster, with fewer resources hasn’t abated. Most people are juggling the [...]
I miss having a man but only if he has a toolkit says Julia Sawalha
28 March 2008, 16:04 No comments
Wendy was hardly a name at all before the publication of Peter Pan, and Darren
pretty much unheard of in Britain until the American sitcom Bewitched
introduced us to the husband of the nose-wiggling Samantha. Maybe we should
now brace ourselves for a generation of girls named Dorcas. It may not be
the prettiest of names, but Julia Sawalha’s [...]
