Opinion

If you’re looking for perfection, Portugal might not be for you. But then again, where would you find it? Humans know, deep down, that “nothing’s perfect”, and it’s an endearing

Let’s talk about the weather. I know, I know … Usually the weather is considered a fairly mundane topic, maybe not worth writing a column about in the area’s leading

Last night I bid goodbye to our daughter at the airport. Both of us hid our tearful eyes from each other as her much-cherished, two-week vacation came to an end,

Trump announced the creation of a reserve of Bitcoin and other digital currencies This is a postscript to my essay “The Humpty Dumpty Emperors” which was published in the Resident

If a regular reader, you’ll know my family and I were without mains water for a few days, a few weeks ago. This week, our informal and unexpected, what you

I must admit that I love everything that is mutually contradictory. Like oxymorons. What do I mean by that? Well, if two things completely negate each other so that if

An inescapable truth is that, as we grow older, we change physically. But perhaps as we navigate through those years, we also change, to some degree, who we are. As

“I have Portugal down as a great place from and in which to experience, even enjoy, this spectacle“ I chanced upon an intriguing cartoon strip this week: one featuring the