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		<title>REFLECTIONS: Memento Mori</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2019 15:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, Dear Reader, but I can remember the worst day of my life as if it were yesterday. I doubt I will ever forget the feeling I had as I walked into the basement after arriving home from some school visit to find my wife Inger and the kids waiting for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>REFLECTIONS: Keeping it  in the family</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some twenty-five years ago, or thereabouts, my wife and I commenced our efforts to try to improve things on the educational landscape of Saint Lucia. Inger had taken the decision not to continue practising medicine in our adopted new homeland but decided instead to spend her time visiting schools in the north and helping in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>REFLECTIONS: A moving experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2019 16:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear reader, this piece is unique in that it is written with one reader in mind. I feel moved—nice choice of words—to tell you all about my recent colonoscopy, which I admit is not the sort of thing about which a gentleman speaks to a lady under normal circumstances, but given your reluctance to fully [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>REFLECTIONS: The World at our Feet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2019 15:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So there we were! We’d had our much-anticipated mystery meeting with the American publishing house and had been informed that ‘we had a deal’ without really knowing what the deal was or what work was involved. But the world was at our feet and that was all that mattered, really. The ‘deal’, it turned out [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>REFLECTIONS: Frankfurt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2019 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It must have been 1971 when we first attended the Frankfurt Book Fair at the invitation of our Swedish publishers who had signed us on just four years earlier to produce our very first series of English Language textbooks called This Way that covered the seven years from grade three to nine of basic school. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reflections: Living Under the State</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2019 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was way back in 1969, I think, that this particular episode took place. I had been working in Sweden for about four years by then, had married and was the father of two children, first a girl, then a boy. I had started writing language textbooks that had become instantaneously popular and promised to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>REFLECTIONS: Seven decades and more</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These Reflections, it now strikes me, will eventually cover seven decades or more—he writes hopefully—which coincide with the length of time I have occupied my space on this Earth. Now, whenever you write about your own life you run the risk of referring to events that have no relevance to the lives of your readers, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Reflections: Childish Things</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Most of us, hopefully perhaps all of us, change immensely throughout our lives. Some equate this with maturing; as we grow older we become wiser, again hopefully. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>REFLECTIONS: Smiles and tears</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Way back in the 1970s, we spent several weeks each year as holiday guests at the Halcyon Days Hotel outside Vieux Fort, always at Christmas and usually once or twice during the rest of the year. The kids were quite small, at least at the beginning of the decade, but by the end of the seventies they were, of course, ten years older. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>REFLECTIONS: Fellow Travellers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I suppose that when you travel as much as I once did—and by “much” I mean up to 200 days a year, which almost brings me up to Saint Lucia’s ministerial level—you are bound sooner or later to have someone famous, or infamous, sit next to you for the duration of the flight. Commuting as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GETTING TO KNOW YOU</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2018 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new inter-active series of programmes from IETV to engender pride in our nation by promoting literacy and local general knowledge.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A-Musings &#8211; Perfidy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 18:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m off to Holland, or as the country is officially titled ‘The Netherlands’ next month to see my dear old buddy Tom Chou.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AMUSINGS: The First Time</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People sometimes refer to events in their lives as ‘life-changing moments’ but I suspect their lives never really changed, for the better or the worse, from that point on; they just continued down the same old path.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Time of Innocence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2018 20:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I suppose it’s one of those legendary signs of old age coming on, the onset of senility, but it appears to me that the once turbulent times of my younger days have levelled out like the surface of the sea after a storm; even waxing poetical it seems. So let me explain.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A WOMAN’S SONGBOOK:  Creative Ensemble Unveils  New Stage Production</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/womans-songbook-creative-ensemble-unveils-new-stage-production/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Walker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Woman’s Songbook is a snapshot of the lives of four contemporary Caribbean Women, challenged by life, love, choice and circumstance.]]></description>
		
		
		
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