Trauma. noun: trauma; plural noun: traumata; plural noun: traumas a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. emotional shock following a stressful event or a physical injury, which may lead to long-term neurosis. Source:...

COVID-19 has united us all - one global community bonded through challenge, through fear, through stamina, and through patience. The tireless, tenacious nature of the beast, with its omnipresence, invisibility and increasingly rapid transmissibility, continues to...

'Long COVID' is one thing, suffered by some. It is serious, not to be overlooked. 'Longtime COVID' is quite another, suffered by everyone. It too is serious, yet under-explored. Both are very real. Only one, however, we really hear about. The term ‘Long COVID’ has...

It was a sound that made the mind’s eye think of a dark, cloud-filled sky cracking open to release heavy, quenching, monsoon raindrops falling onto dry, parched, cracked desert ground. It was a sound that broke through silence, flowing swiftly, soaking into the...

They are words of warning recognised the world over, a literary conversation well known. If only Caesar had listened - if only we had listened: Soothsayer. Caesar! Caesar. Ha! who calls? Casca. Bid every noise be still: peace yet again! Caesar. Who is it in the press...

The global hospitality community has always been one of exceptional leaders - people who have dedicated their lives to taking care of, protecting, serving, and celebrating others. Why? Because hospitality has always been about welcoming people into one's home, whether...

In a year+ of being intensely locked up and locked in by a global pandemic, a year+ in which we've been so tightly constricted in our connections to one another, the radius of our world dramatically reduced, restricted, relying on regulations for recalibration,...

We're almost there!! With Out Of Office notifications now activated, menorahs being carefully packed away, wrapping paper being collected from the base of Christmas trees, another round of turkey sandwiches being prepared from feasty left-overs, and playful off-line...