The other day, I was watching the movie, “The Sound of Music”. It is one of my favourite movies and I can watch it over and over again. I love all the songs of course, but one that I particularly relate to is the one Julie Andrews sings when she leaves the convent for the…
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This year is a very special year for me. I call it “my year of awesomeness” and one of the things that I have done to make it really awesome, is to surround myself with things and people that really mean something to me and rid my life of things that take away from my…
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From the first time I read ‘Little Women’, I was convinced that I was Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Jo’ in some past life. And when I found out that Miss Alcott’s birthday was on the same day as mine, the 29th of November, I was utterly convinced we were part of the same great soul. And…
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What do you have to look forward to in life when you are 72? Not much, one would assume. But not Walter Salvadore Pereira. My brother-in-law, Walter Salvadore Pereira, has at the age of 72, published his first book, ‘This Nightmare Is For Real.’ Walter is my brother-in-law and I am, at the moment, terribly…
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