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By James Abola Retirement is that time when you should be enjoying more leisure time than stress time, if you continue working it could be as a part time consultant. You may even choose to volunteer for a worthwhile cause. This ideal picture of retirement is only possible if you have actually planned for retirement ahead of time. The prospect of a comfortable retirement is like the proverbial carrot dangling in front of us, encouraging us to keep going in hopes of a future reward. The only difference is that, unlike the carrot that is always just too far away to reach, a comfortable retirement is actually attainable. While this is encouraging, achieving your retirement goals will not happen automatically. As with most other things, the two key things that you need to do are to plan ahead and to follow through with your plan. Unfortunately, there is no retirement planning resource that will provide you with the self-discipline and self-motivation you need to achieve your retirement goal...

By Michael Mawa Unconditional Love – the way to go! It is with utmost reluctance and somewhat heaviness that I am, finally, at the bidding of my good friend James, writing this piece about our impressions on the practical consequences of the northern war. There are two reasons for my reluctance: First of all, while the debate rages on what has and has not been done, that debate is largely doing very little if any, in practically improving the day to day lives of these precious Ugandans who do not want to spend an extra day in such despicable conditions. Secondly, there’s simply a feeling of resignation especially with the older generation whom we strongly believe could do a lot in extending tangible support and thus alleviate some of the pain; most especially those who wear the name tag of practicing Christians. Instead they seem to either be completely insensitive, unbothered or just unwilling to respond appropriately to the plight of these people, and prefer to carry on with business...

By James Abola Our daughter is a few months past three years and has been inquisitive for most the past 2 years. Recently she has got round to asking where my daddy and mummy are. I reckon she always sees her Jjaja (her maternal grand mother) and wonders where the paternal grannies are. I have attempted to explain to her that daddy’s parents are no longer here but with little success. When I got a summon to go home for the traditional marriage of my cousin Miriam I jumped at it and that is how daughter and daddy ended up in Gulu for three days. When we were about to live Gulu for Kampala she came with ‘knowing’ smile and told me “daddy I have seen your mummy.” Now I have to dig deeper to explain that although her biological grandparents are departed from this world she still has many grand parents alive! During our stay in Gulu I observed three things: dust, darkness and dance. The dust You see, for long time, Gulu has been the defacto regional headquarters for Northern Uganda and that...