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I started on this subject before the invasion of Ukraine and it felt a little frivolous to continue considering the enormity of what is going on now within our European borders. However, after some reflection, I’ve decided this idea may not be as disconnected as it first seemed.  The life-threatening situation for the poor citizens…

Sorry is a word that many of us find hard to say. Sometimes, it’s not so difficult. You bump into a person, say sorry and move on with the easy acceptance that it was your fault. But it becomes a little more difficult to own up to one’s own errors when there might be repercussions…

I heard recently of the death of someone who died over the Christmas period. It was a sudden unexpected death and it went unnoticed for some days. Friends telephoned their friend over a period of two or three days, assuming they might have gone back to family for Christmas.  They left messages and heard nothing…

Sometimes a person’s brain seems to be particularly susceptible to an external message. Say, for example, you’re experiencing a feeling of hunger while not being aware of the actual feeling. You may be watching television and you see someone eating some chocolate. “I know,” you think, “I wonder if I’ve got any chocolate. I feel…

Social media may be punching way above its weight. What was intended to be a great source of friendship across all worlds, seems to have turned into a constant fight fest. Facebook was well-liked until the algorithms meant we stopped hearing what our friends were up to and were instead directed to specific sponsored sites…

A friend of mine died recently. It was unexpected and the news came as a sudden and great shock. I heard about it via a message from her mobile phone. To read a message from her number telling me that she is no more made it seem all the more unbelievable.  Much of my work…

It wasn’t so long ago that we were all social-bubbled up together and longing to see our loved ones again. The fear of coronavirus left us restricted in a way that, pre-March 2020, we could never have imagined.  After some false and unnerving starts, release slowly went ahead until now we are – almost –…

Anyone who knows anything about Shakespeare’s plays will know one of the starring roles often belongs to the fool. He is the person who tells it like it is. He’s the one who advises the monarch not to do what he’s about to and who foresees what might happen if he does. (His other role…