I think now is the right time of the year when I can tell you about our trip to Rovaniemi, located in the Lapland region in Finland. I have had the pleasure of visiting some of the North European countries

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward. - Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō - As I do every year in the week prior to Christmas, I've been making calls to wish some folks a great festive season and

A short poem

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas - I'm counting down the days until my nephew arrives just before Christmas; to say I'm excited to see him and have

Now, I have never considered myself to be much of a wildlife photographer, but I do get lucky from time to time.

It's November this month, it is not even summer, but we are back in our childhood resort for a swim. On ordinary days, we would never go out for a trip to unwind in a resort. It just so happen that two

Most people don't get to see all of my contradictions although some see enough to recognise the dichotomy that is me. Some respond and value what they see and feel enough to want to move closer; some do

Autumn can be a scarecrow for many plants and flowers, some of which can't stand the low winter temperatures waiting around the corner. I look with interest and pity at how the flowers in my little garden

I didn't expect to have a helper this weekend, although I should have considering I was up on my roof cleaning gutters. I wrote a little about my chores here a couple days ago and there's a link to an

It hasn't even been a year here on the Gubba Homestead and I just pulled my first ever garden harvest! I had started a raised garden bed at my old house but ended up moving before any harvest could be

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. - Epictetus - I’ve been craving this view for a few weeks now but, because of my commitments and other factors, have been unable to

Life really throws unexpected turn of events in front of your face. And sometimes, you get overwhelmed and act rashly according to how you feel at the moment, and you often times forget to remind yourself

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. - Confucius - If I'm to believe Confucius, I'm a common man, because yesterday I thought not of virtue, but of comfort; the comfort

There are lots of things that happened while I'm away, and I know that I missed so much opportunities from those lost times. But still, I don't want to think that it's all because of my incompetence that

There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence. On the first

Hive Saved My Life - A look back over the past 4 years on the blockchain!

Were you born into a wealthy family? You probably don't have many troubles as I do. Or maybe there was something wrong with the way I think. I feel so sick not knowing what to do. There are thousands of

I want to know how does it feel to be out of misery? I guess that's what my heart desires. I've been living alone in the dark for years. And I still believe that I can pull myself out of this mess. I don't

I am the Oracle. The Oracle is wise. The oracle is all-knowing. The oracle is also a knucklehead. I'm not really an Oracle...Yeah, yeah I know my title is technically false advertising; I thought it would

If everyone in the world is sad, will the world become poor? Someone told me that, so I asked. I think it makes sense. When you feel like that, you can't do anything good for yourself. You can't exactly