Givers Get
dated 2008-01-01 | posted in columns | topic People | permanent link
For a couple that has no children and no family living in Portugal, the holidays can be problematic, even depressing if one lets them be. But this year I was determined to fall neither into the blues nor into self-pity. Instead, I remembered the words of an Australian I met over 20 years ago on the beach. “Givers get,” she said. With that one sentence she walked on, and I never saw her again. Her words, though, have always stuck with me.
As mi ...
Dining in Style: India in Cascais
dated 2008-01-16 | posted in columns | topic Lifestyle | permanent link
With a mixture of outspoken arrogance and mild embarrassment I have deliberately avoided eating at the popular Mayura India Restaurant right next door to my home. For the past 10 years, the affable co-owner, Prem, has intermittently asked me,
Patricia why don’t you eat at our restaurant?
And I always gave the same answer.
“Because of the smoking.”
My husband, Don, often sneaked in after I was asleep, probably trying to supplement ...
Holocaust Remembrance Sunday
dated 2008-01-28 | posted in columns | topic People | permanent link
Holocaust Remembrance Sunday,2008
Eddie Fernandes, Pastor of the Riverside International Church, gets my vote for hero of the week, if not the month and year. Two weeks ago I received an invitation from him to attend the church's Sunday service." Eddie wrote:
This letter comes to invite you to attend our “Holocaust Remembrance Sunday” on Sunday January 27, 2008. We are one of the few Christian Churches in Portugal that have joined this Eu ...