Super Mothers
dated 2009-05-06 | posted in columns | topic Charity | permanent link
Meet the Super Mothers
As far as I’m concerned the true heroines of Mother’s Day are the seven mothers at the SOS Village in Bicesse. Sure, there are great mothers all over the world, and I was lucky to have one of them. But the women I know in Bicesse: Celeste, Natacha, Fernanda, Cinda, Emília, Eugénia , Filomena and Amélia, who retired last July, stay in my mind as the most dedicated, loving and hard working mothers I have ever met ...
Another Well Kept Secret
dated 2009-05-19 | posted in columns | topic Travel | permanent link
“You’re going to Ireland?" my friend Susana queried. The emphasis on the word “Ireland” made me nervous: what was so wrong with the country to deserve such lambasting?
Turns out: nothing. Five days there last week rendered a country full of luxurious grass, a tumultuous but mesmerizing sea and best of all the friendliest Europeans that side of Lisbon. The Irish mafia, the potato famine and the fact that Ireland defeated the Lisbon Treaty w ...