How does “moving on” happen? How does something or someone in our lives suddenly turn into something or someone who used to be in our...

A friend has let me down and cancelled a visit to an exhibition at really short notice (I was on my way there). She’s always been a bit...

Yesterday I was told something about a friend. I didn’t know it before and it wasn’t an actual “thing” it was that “people were saying”...

Yesterday I was talking with a friend who is really dynamic - does everything well, knows everyone, always busy, always well dressed,...

Shakespeare of course, and definitely right as far as roses are concerned - I love roses as those who come to my flat or house will have...

When your head won’t stop thinking and is constantly spinning onto the next thing, or jumbled things. When you lie awake at night trying...

A LinkedIn post yesterday really made me think so I thought I’d share. Whether we agree or disagree with some of the responses, they all...

Poetry has always been a special form of communication for me; I think of it almost as compressed emotion Roger Keyes read his amazing...

For me the summer is over and I seem to have been hit with a tidal wave of Things To Be Done. My teaching timetable is changing almost...

Well now I've got an app called Drafts and it seems to have sparked off two different trains of thought. I think Drafts is like Notes in...

Whinnie the Pooh had it right - he got it. Nobody know how we are feeling unless we tell them because nobody is in our heads except us. ...

What is a friend? Is a friend someone you’ve known for a long time? Or is a friend someone you can rely on. Someone you can be yourself...

It doesn’t matter how much I think I’ve worked it out, life still takes me by surprise Whether it’s my reaction to something I thought I...

Why do I love quotes? I think it’s because sometimes it feels that the writer has captured something and put it very cleverly. Sometimes...

Sometimes things just are not fair. Sometimes things just suck. Nothing anyone’s done, just horrible. It’s so tempting to tell someone in...

This was given to me by a good friend. I saved it in Notes and it’s been there for nearly a year. Sometimes the silence is hidden behind...

I'm still finding it very challenging, working out how to add a post from my phone. This means I'm not really posting anything, but...

Well it's taken a little while to work our how to start a new blog here, so I've left my old blog up at blogsite to remind me I can do...