It is unbelievable, isn’t it? US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has just ordered his staffers to stop using the Calibri font in diplomatic correspondence
Tag: Writing
“Infection” is a dirty word
HIV is hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Just a few months ago, HIV was in the news because the end of the
When democracy is broken
Ever heard of “autocratic breakthrough”? Me neither … well, not until I tried to make sense of the noise created by certain people as they
Let’s talk about Chat
The world changed while I was not looking. In a flash, artificial intelligence (AI) was melded to real life. Of course, there was warning, but
Discovering the magic of story
Stories and the telling of them are part of our lives and the real world we live in. Since the beginning of humankind, we have
What we need now is kindness
Where is the acknowledgement that we are frightened and in pain? Why are we not comforting each other? This reality demands a new kind of
A tale of two viruses
About 30 years ago, when the first stories about HIV and AIDS emerged, I was a health reporter on the Sunday Tribune in Durban, the
It’s a 7 thing
Seven. It shows up everywhere, from major religions to popular book titles. Naturally, the days of the week, the wonders of the world, the continents
Autumn in the global village
Today, we all live in the “global village” that Canadian professor Marshall McLuhan first spoke about in the ’60s. That’s why people like me can