The close of a year can inevitably lead to reflection. Late last year, and perhaps due to my insistence, we entered the world of blogging. Corporate blogging at that. I deliberately differentiate and add the word “corporate”, because in the online world, if you fake your blog, you’ll be found out and there can be [...]

Readers of this blog will probably be familiar with South African Aids activist Clive Harvey Fox; he’s guest-posted here before, on the occasion of World Aids Day.  His inspirational words were clearly appreciated by a few followers who commented on the post. Initially, I hesitated to post Clive’s recent gift to us (below); mainly because [...]

Last week something was published in the mainstream media that, in many ways, fit perfectly for commentary here: cultural group stereotyping. I resisted: it was the end of a particularly busy day and I really didn’t want to get into an “us vs. them” discussion, let alone one that set up the Italian community, once [...]