Hi everyone, I’ve been writing these pieces each week for a little over a year now. I wrote the first one as a way to reconnect with my...

We come into this world 100% dependent on others for our survival. We cannot feed, drink, think or move for ourselves. We are cute and...

It’s generally accepted that we – our species, the modern Homo sapiens – have been around for about 50,000 years. In that time roughly...

Hi again, Monday again. Easter again. Time, eh? It’ll get ya. I’ve been a little got this week, not feeling too well. My head feels like...

Hi, I’ve decided to take the day off today. Not from writing this or from the other work I have but from the kind of work that has...

Hi everyone, Firstly, thank you for all your messages of support and encouragement in response to the news we shared last time that my...

Hi everyone, As Yvonne, Affectionately Known As Whirly, said in her email last week, my brothers, Joe and Michael, and I have decided to...

Hi everyone, I had something completely different in mind for today, but there’s a blog I read every morning – about football, as it...

Hello again, I find it amusing and a little bemusing to think that we human beings come delivered, pre-packaged, with everything we need...

A couple of thousand years ago or thereabouts the Roman Stoics practised a mental exercise (as in, for the mind; not as in, my mate Jonny...

Hello again. You’re probably aware of the 10,000 hours “rule” made famous by Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. Practise something for...

I can’t remember now if he preferred to call it gibberish or gobbledygook – I’ve gone with the former because I like how it makes my...

Rupture is an inevitable part of life. In fact, life can’t fully begin without it: the primal rupture of the baby from its mother. Until...

Hi everyone, This week’s piece has been on my mind for a while. I’ve known I wanted to write something to mark the year since my dad...

Do you ever think about how much time you spend thinking? Or to be specific—how much time you spend thinking without thinking you’re...

Way back in the summer (remember then? It was, genuinely, remarkably, somehow, a simpler time), I used this weekly piece to offer a free...

As we reorient ourselves once more to face forward, looking up at 2021 as it forms before us, it may well feel daunting, it might’ve...

As this year metaphorically mumbles, gurgles and grumbles its last words before finally succumbing to its inevitable passing, I’d like to...

Did you ever play Stuck in The Mud when you were younger? It’s basically a game of tag. One player’s ‘it’ and everyone else scatters to...

Our instinct to help others in need, especially those we love, is a sign of our natural human (primal, even animalistic) drive. We see...