Tributes

When someone asks who you would like to make a tribute to, who you have been most impacted by in your life, it can be a difficult choice. It puts you in a strange position, one in which you suddenly focus on everything for which you are grateful, on everything which you love about the individuals ar...

There are no such great people anymore. So brave, so loving, so indefatigable optimistic, as my great-grandmother and great-grandfather were. Although they were born in the 1920s and we had a huge age difference, my granny Eugenia and grandpa Vasiliy were those with whom I always wanted to share the...

Have you ever felt you've found your soulmate, right from the first moment you've met them? Have you ever felt a complete stranger is your closest family member? Well, I did.   Now you probably expect to read a story about a boyfriend or husband, but let me tell you something: you can discover...

Dear Mama, I just want you to know that I miss you dearly and will always hold you in my heart. But there are times when all I want to do is hold you right now; hold onto you like I used to do when I was a little child. I remember the hugs and kisses we used to give each other. I was always the one...

Since the day I was born up until this very day, an inexhaustible source of love, support and care. For more than two decades she never took a sick day, never judged and was always there. Sacrificed so much and asked for nothing in return. Showed and taught me right from wrong and made me into the...

  You I met a man four years ago, he was the one I want to jump in with into this black hole called love. We came from the opposite sides of the world with different cultures, different practices, different skin colours and different perspectives in life. He was everything that I did not exp...

      You often call me on the phone or drop by to interrupt my continuous and enervating solving of problems and keeping of promises, and while I listen impatiently to your enthusiastic rants, being annoyed by every insignificant detail you must tell me about your newest idea, I slowly get awa...

Tim is a person that I met in a strange part of my life. When I met him, I was in an unhappy relationship with an emotionally abusive partner. I didn't know it was abusive until he told me and helped me get out of it. I never intended to fall for him, but some things are meant to happen, not throu...

Afifa, You came into my life in the darkest hour. When my heart had broken into pieces, my dreams had flown away, and I was ready to die. I was trapped in a gravy tunnel with blind ends. I didn’t know where to go. I didn’t know what to do. I lost the track of my time and my soul. I was stuck...

Heroes don’t fall from the sky like Superman; neither are they made in the laboratory like captain America. They are born from the sufferings of their failure like a new phoenix rises from its ashes. That’s what Batman is. That’s what he teaches us. That he is not just a superhero. He is an ...