Just like a marathon, this quarantine is testing our endurance. This is what happened when I hit the wall. — I started quarantine 38 days ago knowing that it was probably going to last longer than 40 days… and I wasn’t wrong. Last week, I found out our quarantine was being extended for another three weeks and my hope that at least school would restart by the end of the…

I knew consumerism was not good for (my) mental health, it took a trip to the US to remind me of just how bad it is. — I was in the USA earlier this year and for the first time I finally understood why there is a movement against capitalism… to be fair it’s more specifically against consumerism. …

“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die” — Malachy McCourt. The first time I read this quote, I thought “yeah right, that sounds like some hippie love mumbo jumbo”. I didn’t get it. Correction, I did not want to get it. Because that’s what…

“Omnia Vincit Amor” or “Love conquers all”, is part of a poem by the Roman Poet Virgil. It is simple, romantic and timeless and the reason why 2,000 years later it still strums at our heart strings. But is it true? Now more than ever we are constantly seeing a…

I was recently in London and decided to watch Prime Minister’s questions of the day. Granted I could’ve listened even if I wasn’t in the UK, but when in Rome… Aside from being amused with the theatrics that is parliament, the (sometimes funny) quick comebacks and witty remarks, I left…

Estamos a punto de experimentar cambios fundamentales en la forma en que vivimos nuestras vidas. El último de estos cambios fue probablemente durante la revolución industrial y la escala de ese cambio fue minúscula en comparación con la que se avecina. La tecnología se ha ido adentrando a nuestras vidas…

We are on the verge of monumental changes to the way we live our lives. The last such change was probably the industrial revolution and the scale of that change was miniscule compared to this one. Technology has been seeping into our lives steadily for the last 50 years, although…

Are sufficient female toilets an unobtainable dream? Let’s talk about women’s bladders shall we? And the quiet suffering they have endured throughout the years. For the uninitiated, women unlike men are unable to relieve themselves anywhere. …

If you think this is an article about all of the amazing, beautiful and life-changing reasons for having children or about all the restrictive, awful and life-changing reasons for not having children, this isn’t that kind of article. It’s somewhere in between. — For as far as can I remember, I had always been ambivalent about whether to have children. While my friends only wanted to play with dolls, I wanted to play with all sorts of things… not only dolls. I wasn’t a let’s play mummies and babies kind of girl. …