All Posts In » Health
-
03Mar
Marriage Saves Lives
I was just sitting quietly at my desk typing and working away when, suddenly, I was startled by a loud cheer from the office next door. Being Valentine’s Day I thought that someone must have gone down on one knee
Read more →By alison in Discrimination · Family · Health · Lifestyle · Love · Publications · Reality · Religious & Political · The Sunday Times No comments yet -
09Dec
The easiest answer is No
Scene – option 1 Michael (10 years old) – Mum, can I sleep over at Jessie’s tonight? Mum – No Michael bickers and frets, throws a tantrum, eventually gets tired and sleeps End of story Scene – option 2 Michael
Read more →By alison in Discrimination · Family · Health · Lifestyle · Love · Publications · Reality · Religious & Political · The Sunday Times No comments yet -
02Nov
Say Hello to The Twins
October is soon to be inaugurated the month for sickeningly shameful court sentences, but since I’ve already written about the absurdity of all that, since I’ve already felt sick to my stomach reading ridiculous judgements and since it seems that society
Read more →By alison in About Me · Autobiographical · Health · Lifestyle · Publications · Reality · The Sunday Times No comments yet -
09Oct
There’s no such thing as a [glutin] free lunch
Imagine washing your hands between preparing your kids’ sandwiches and your own, not ever licking your fingers after handing them cake and having your own separate butter tub and toaster. That’s what Joanne Scerri Valentino, 41, once a foodie, has had to do since she was diagnosed with celiac disease nine years ago.
Read more → -
11Sep
The Cost of Being Right
When she whom we dare not mention by name, chanted Glory Glory Alleluia celebrating Dom Mintoff’s death, many, even die-hard Nationalists, said that they felt disgusted. Surprisingly, even those who never had a good word to say about the man
Read more →By alison in Careers · Disability · Discrimination · Family · Health · Lifestyle · Publications · Religious & Political · The Sunday Times No comments yet -
01Sep
A Silent Scream
This true story was first published in Pink Magazine August 2012 The one thing Kathryn Fenech Soler could always depend on is the one thing she’s losing for good – her voice. Alison Bezzina reads her lips to shout out her story about
Read more →By alison in Disability · Health · Lifestyle · PINK magazine · Publications · Reality No comments yet -
18Aug
He is King of The World
My brother David suffers from a learning and intellectual disability. To put it simply, he’s thirty years old with the mental age of a six year old. Despite his condition, he is a brilliant swimmer; he can hold his breath
Read more →By alison in Disability · Discrimination · Family · Health · Love · Publications · Reality · The Sunday Times · Uncategorized No comments yet -
10Aug
Pathetically Sad Arguments
The worst kind of let downs are the ones you walk straight into. They’re the ones your better judgement warns you about but you just don’t listen. And this is exactly what I did with the new IVF Bill.
Read more →By alison in Discrimination · Family · Health · Lifestyle · Love · Publications · Reality · Religious & Political · The Sunday Times No comments yet -
24Jul
The Golden Window
This story was first published in Pink Magazine of July 2012. Click here for the feature how it appeared. Part of Elizabeth Hair’s skull may still be sitting in a fridge, waiting to be reinserted. But after suffering a stroke that
Read more → -
12Jun
Not myChoice
A week or so ago Joseph Muscat did the unthinkable… in an unprecedented turn of events he actually shed some light on a couple of things that he plans to include in Labour’s electoral manifesto. The proposals included: The
Read more →By alison in Disability · Discrimination · Family · Health · Lifestyle · Love · Publications · Reality · Religious & Political · The Sunday Times No comments yet
www.timesofmalta.com
