In her own words 
‘HAVE’ VS ‘HAVE NOT’: TODAY’S STRONG DIVIDE RISKING A WEAKER TOMORROW
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...
‘LONGTIME COVID’: EVERYONE IS SUFFERING, EVERYONE NEEDS TO HEAL
'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...
APPLAUSE – MONSOON RAINS HEALING PARCHED COVID19 SPIRITS
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...
COVID-19 OFFICIAL HOTEL QUARANTINE: WISH FOR A WINDOW FACING THE SUNRISE
At present there are 40. At 04:00am on the 23rd of April there will be 41. UK ‘Red List’ countries – nations worldwide viewed as a risk of COVID-19 importation due to surges and/or strains, making passengers arriving into the UK a domestic threat....
COVID-19 ONE YEAR ON. THE SOOTHSAYER TRIED TO WARN US
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...
INSPIRING UNITY THROUGH HEARTBROKEN COMMUNTIY
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...
BRIEF BREATHS OF COVID-HEALING
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,...
AS MIDNIGHT NEARS PLEASE ALLOW TEARS TO FALL
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...
IN TAKING, COVID-19 HAS GIVEN
Tomorrow will be December. A new month - the final month of what was to be a new year: 2020, unlocking all of the hope and possibility, confidence and certainty of a new decade. Little did we know what 2020 would bring, how locked in we would all be, not just...
TAMING THE ROARING (20)20s
As we near the beginning of November - awed that we are into the countdown to the end of the year, bewildered by the blur behind us - it is impossible to not pause and think of all that has been. 2020 is not over yet, but still, who could have known that the roaring...