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...

April 1997 - Dr. Joe Mifsud, who at the time was a journalist (and is now a lawyer) issued a press release entitled Se Nibqa' Nghid il-Verità Akkost ta' Kollox. The press release referred to a journalistic investigation that he had carried out in...

The story of the 16 year old lesbian, who earlier this month was attacked by two boys in a Hamrun square, caused public uproar… and rightly so. When the story broke, it was reported that the attack happened on a bench, and that the police had...

It's been a hundred years since we've heard the words "women and children first", but this week, thanks to the now infamous Captain Schettino, those very words hit the headlines once again. As I watched the surreal footage and heard the dead toll...

As a child, I always secretly wished for an acting career. I honestly believed that as an adult I’d fly off to Hollywood, join one of the film studios, and make it big as an actress. Then, I realised that good actors can only make it big in...

If you're one of those sitting on a moral high horse telling people and the media to stop speculating about the New Year's Day double murder, then stop wasting your time. Yes, people should shut up and wait for the facts to come out, but the truth...

Though writing forms a very small part of my life, getting my thoughts out (and off my chest), takes up most of my free time. Between writing and having a life, I get left with very little time to do what I truly love, which is reading the way it's...