Spiritual but not religious
Our monthly feature seeks to offer open-minded, clarifying, and meaningful responses to readers’ questions about spirituality. Send your questions to The Resident. Q: I’d like to take my prayer life
Letter from Cascais – November 2020
Since November 9, our life is subject to new restrictions under a re-imposed State of (Health) Emergency. A curfew is in place, from 11pm to 5am on weekdays and from
Democracy and freedom in Portugal
COMMENT Amid declining democratic freedoms across the world, international studies have placed Portugal very highly for its level of political rights and civil liberties. The Freedom House research institute based
What expats miss the most from wherever “ex” is
Friends and family are what expats miss the most from wherever “back home” is located. Quite naturally, the whole family didn’t relocate to the southern coast of Portugal and neither
Here is my take
COMMENT This is what Fareed Zakaria, the CNN commentator that many of us follow, says at the beginning of his program to transmit his opinion. While I send out many
London Calling
He’s behind you As the new Spitting Image calls him on their re-launched puppet satire, we all hoped ‘Coroney’ was indeed behind us. But as London and the UK braces
Poultry perils
Owning a ‘farmhouse’ sounded ideal and so when we moved here in 1999, we embraced the opportunity to have some farm pets. However, not everything is as simple as we
Spiritual but not religious
Our monthly feature seeks to offer open-minded, clarifying, and meaningful responses to readers’ questions about spirituality. Send your questions to The Resident. Q: Is schadenfreude a sin? Schadenfreude is a
What hungry expats miss most from wherever they came
After many of my readers got what they don’t like about Portugal off their chests and have now resigned themselves to living out their retirement years self isolated in a
Riding the second wave
They say it’s not over until the fat lady sings. Ten months on and the pandemic is still very much with us. As I am writing, new cases of Covid-19