A 2007 study, published in the journal - Sex Roles - found that couples who hold feminist views have a better time between the sheets. Blowing the top off the usual stereotypes that portray feminists as men-haters, the study shows that women who...

For days now I've been walking around with a big sly smile on my face. I see people staring, wondering what's wrong with me. I see kids pulling at their mothers' skirts and pointing at the silly woman singing to herself. Some are reaching for their...

Six years ago I had the honour of interviewing Censu and Maria Tabone about a subject not many had discussed with our ex-President. With Valentine’s day looming, I wanted to know what made their (then) 63 year old marriage tick. One of the things...

Has it just dawned on us that women are still almost invisible in top posts? Why suddenly all this pomp and circumstance about women’s quotas? And more importantly, why are we still resisting them? Whilst quotas might not be the ideal solution, most...

Last month I did the unthinkable - for the first time in months I took a day off work. I mean a whole full day of leave for no particular reason whatsoever. The intention was to dilly dally and take things easy, but true to my nature I filled the...

Yesterday afternoon, I was shopping at a busy cosmetics outlet in St. Julian's, and whilst I was discretely rummaging through the "first signs of aging" section, someone caught my attention. She had long glossy hair with streaky blonde strands,...

I tried to resist, honestly I tried, but then Fr. Joe Borg wrote another blog about single adoptions, and here I am fuming. For those not in the loop of this saga please refer to www.alisonbezzina.com for a summary, as well as Fr. Joe Borg's most...

This week was one of those weeks - following my previous two blogs about adoption, I suddenly became flavour or the month (as Tanja Cilia so eloquently put it). I was also preparing to take part in my first half marathon, and as fate would have...

I have to say that the interest generated by my previous blog (about single adoptions from Ethiopia), and the feedback to the subsequent news report by Claudia Calleja on the same subject, left me pleasantly surprised. Honestly, I didn’t think...

Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I'm going to assume that you're one of those people who don't give a hoot about same sex marriage. I'm also going to assume, that whilst you don't mind two consenting adults getting married regardless of their...