Christmas Tacky
For over the last ten years, I have written an annual Christmas letter to friends and family. In the past, I have often felt like holiday letters were intended to show how glamorous the life of the sender was in comparison to the rest of us. We might learn that a friend had traipsed around […]
Be seen and not heard
Growing up, our father warned us ‘Children should be seen and not heard.’ It was his parental way of controlling or at least stifling our behaviour. If my sister and I were expected to be seen but never heard—we were being trained to be passive observers without a voice or opinion. This saying has an emphatic […]