Interview - Miriam Calleja Shaw

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You have recently published a book called COVID-19and the Virus that Shook the World . It provides a sobering look at virus infections and pandemics, with particular emphasis on the COVID-19 strain. Presently, the cases have diminished in Europe but the spread has moved elsewhere. However, how safe is ‘safe’ at the moment? With the way things are evolving with the ’new’ coronavirus, it’s very difficult to answer this question. The WHO just last weekend warned that the worst may be yet to come. We are certainly witnessing an atrocious amount of deaths and illness in the US. We don’t yet know with certainty which factors are affecting the progression of the pandemic. Indeed we don’t even know about all the symptoms that appear with COVID-19 infection. The relative ‘safety’ is different for everyone, depending on the state of their immunity and certain other factors. For a person with average health who isn’t too old, the danger of getting severely ill may be low – but we need to
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My Storytime

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No photo description available.Check out MY STORYTIME on Facebook. A group of local actors are providing daily live storytelling sessions in Maltese and in English, for different age groups. Readers include Pia Zammit, Coryse Borg, Lou Ghirlando and Rachel Ellul Mercer. (Seeing how it's a live streaming event, it's important that you consult their daily schedule to see what's on and when. Sometimes readings are put up again for a brief period of time.)
We are a group of women whose lives have always been filled with the enchantment of stories! We wish to engage children during these days of Covid-19, giving them some respite and magic in the way that only stories can. We believe they are getting enough school work, and can learn about story structure, grammar and language there. Our purpose here is to fill children with stories for the sake of stories and the personal meaning that each child will make of them.


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