Category Archives: The voice of the reader

I met Elina one autumn afternoon in 1980, when I was 30 years old. I was excited preparing for my trip to the USA but before leaving I decided to attend -for the first time- to a talk for women that was to be given in a city near my own. I was eager to…

Royal Jordanian Flight 753 landed on time at Queen Alia Airport in Amman. As a fashion reporter I would be covering a story for two days, which would allow me to get to know the pink city of the Nabataeans. Being Jordan a country with different customs and language, I preferred to stay in a…

I arrived in Avila on the last evening train. It was summer and the heat was unbearable. I left my little bags at an inn on the Paseo del Rastro and went for a walk along the twelfth century walls, retracing the footsteps of Saint Teresa of Avila. She was proclaimed the first female Doctor…