Last night I posted my version of Susan Boyle’s story on the Ode magazine website member exchange (I love Ode, the magazine and website “for intelligent optimists”). The posting evoked…

  Calling all female entrepreneurs in Dubai (and the rest of the UAE!) – you are invited to the launch event of Heels & Deals – the ultimate network for female entrepreneurs!…

This is an open letter to Mr Johann Hari in response to his article The Dark Side of Dubai, published in The Independent, Tuesday April 7, 2009, in which he…

The Love-to-Hate-Dubai Debate rages on with yesterday’s excellent article by Linda Heard in Arab News entitled “Dubai-bashing becomes anart form” and a piece in the Gulf News reporting that: The…

Two weeks ago, comments I left in response to editorial columns in The Guardian and The Economist generated several hundred visits to this humble blog. Why such great interest in…

Several recent articles by kippreport are worth reading wherever you sit on the subject: Dubai rents: the predicament and the predictions: (update) April 19 review of what some people say…

On March 20, The Guardian (UK) ran an opinion piece by Simon Jenkins, which essentially trashed Dubai. The inflammatory editorial included inaccuracies and innuendo, and not a lot of fact…

Last year and into my third trimester of my second pregnancy, an “amazing” college student from Montreal doing a semester abroad at the Univ. of Bocconi in Milan and who…

I get daily email updates from several news sources – in the absence of TV, they help me keep my finger on the pulse of at least some of the…

Susan notes: this post is as timely now as when I wrote it in early 2010. I love the logic in the post below, AND I love knowing that women don’t…