Are you like me, have you got too much on your plate? Do you suffer with what I call 'constipation of the mind'? It is tough going when we’re trying to deal with grieving, keeping the wolves from the door, coping with family rifts and other emotional or physical pain. In my case, I am [...]

This month marks the heart wrenching anniversary of losing my brother and a daughter, both of whom passed on the same date. If I wasn’t feeling bad enough, I’ve now just lost my rock! I am telling you this because I’m an ordinary person like you. However much I cry, however devastated and empty I [...]

I don’t like tomatoes… or I never used to like them as a child. Yet actually, when I first gave this thought, and it was probably in the eighties when pizzerias became popular in the UK, I realised that I like tomatoes in some forms. When I gave this further consideration, I recalled that as [...]

We all have aspects of our personalities that frustrate us. They could be considered as faults or idiosyncrasies, or simply habits we wish to change. But habits are extremely hard to combat, especially as many of them are hard-wired into us, often because we’ve spent considerable years practising them. Perhaps we’ve not given conscious thought [...]