One of the complaints that we often make today when trying to contact companies is that it is so hard to speak to someone. We all prefer to be greeted […]

We have all heard the expression: ‘to burn ones boats’.  It probably has its origin in history.  Be it with Alexander the great in Grece or Hernan Cortes in Mexico.  […]

In Croatia women have a great devotion to St. Anthony, especially young girls praying for a husband. One girl was fed up one day and threw statue out the window; […]

In 1885 Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Impressionist Painter) visited a museum in Amsterdam to see Rembrandt’s famous painting, ‘The Jewish Bride’. Having seen it he said, ‘I would give ten […]

Todays gospel is about Jesus’s little helper.  He is carrying a bag on his back and there he has five loafs of bread and two fishes. Maybe we wants to […]

In the summer of 1666, a man saw an apple falling from a tree, he asked himself: why? and he took some time to think about it.  He came to […]

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, and social reformer who was born in Kolkata in India in 1861. He won the Nobel  prize for literature in 1993.  One […]

A few years ago, Julio Iglesias sang a beautiful song, a very sad song, it was called: ‘me olvide de vivir’ – I forgot how to live’.  It talks about […]

Sometimes we hear a sad song,  or we read a sad book,  or we see a film with a sad ending;  or sometimes we are just sad in our own […]

John Newton was the son of an English sea captain. When John was ten, his mother died, and he went to sea with his father. At 17, however, he rebelled […]