This past Christmas (which seems a lifetime ago now), I received a gift from a good friend. This gift was a book written by Henri J.M. No...

Earlier this month, it was mental health awareness week and this year the focus was kindness. If you’ve read any of my previous posts, yo...

According to Gretchen Rubin, Robert Benchley said ‘there are two kinds of people in the world, those who divide people into two groups an...

I met up with a friend recently for a coffee. It was great. I hadn’t seen her for some time, but it was easy to chat and catch up on all ...

I have a question for you. How many times have you visited the land of “SHOULD” today? What I mean by that is, how many times today have ...

This was a song in the late 70’s, sung by Billy Joel. That was its title, “I love you just the way you are.” It did pretty well; people s...

I think and talk a lot about kindness - self-kindness and self-compassion in particular. In my blurb about this blog I started 2 years ag...

It’s been a wee while since I’ve posted anything on this blog. I’ve blinked and summer disappeared. Late summer also seems to have come a...

I’m having an interesting summer so far this year. I haven’t slid into summer completely burnt out from the flurry of finishing off a sem...

A few weeks ago, it was mental health awareness week. Here in the UK, that meant people we’re tweeting, instagram-ing and Facebook-ing al...