It’s beginning to….
Global warming is really starting to take it’s toll. Personally I blame Bing Crosby, it wasn’t really his fault that... Read more »
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Its a wonderful……
What is this thing we call life? I have always found the 35 minute summation of a person at... Read more »
Step into your life.
Standing beside a road watching a point of no particular interest on the other side. Eight lanes of speeding traffic... Read more »
Christmas Elf
I am grateful that our kids were too old to get involved with the little red spy that has crept... Read more »
Running the race
Having sporty children in an interesting concept. I spent most of my childhood charging around our towns and villages to... Read more »
The thrill of hope
Being told that “it could be worse” really is no help at all. Of course it could be worse, without a... Read more »
Mid life or Later
Not now but soon. I would love to be a procrastinator but I really can’t be bothered! That’s not strictly... Read more »
You say man flu I say head cold!
Sickness is a very subjective subject. I can go through entire years without as much as a headache and... Read more »
Every day is a winding road.
I hear you Sheryl. The differences between Roman culture and all others are many, but few things sum it... Read more »
Teeth rattled.
Today was a two cup morning! Usually Sunday a night sleep isn’t a good one, but I had been so... Read more »
The curtain of perfection
I like people watching. People are amazing, they are are study all of their own. In our early married days... Read more »
Silence
It has been a very noisy day today. It just seems like some days go from one decibelic level to... Read more »
Motivational Mafia
The gangster in my pocket In late August it was time to get my new phone; it has become something... Read more »
Let go
No, not the song that has burrowed like a worm into your brain. In 1988 we took a trip... Read more »
What motivates me?
Money! That isn’t even close to the truth. Back in the early days of breakfast TV in the... Read more »
When a man loves a woman.
Torrential rain is always a challenge. The weather today was like being in a rainforest without the trees, heat and... Read more »
Buyer’s remorse!
What have I done? You are waking up slowly and it gradually dawns upon you that you have just signed... Read more »
Slave to fear
Oh how the rabble rousers love a good scrap. Actually they they love the idea of a good fight as... Read more »
Return to Everest
In case you wondered, I do try to apply this stuff to myself. Last week I wrote a piece about... Read more »
Dare to challenge.
Homer famously said, “It is written down, it must be true!” That was Homer Simpson by the way, not the... Read more »
Make like a tree…
…….and leave! I couldn’t help myself when I saw this yesterday, nestled there slap bang in the middle of this... Read more »
There are some things that you can’t train for.
I have been watching the HBO series ‘Pacific’ again. Each episode begins with the elderly gentlemen who lived the through... Read more »
The great pretender
One of the greatest insults that could be directed at us as children growing up was to be called, two... Read more »
Purveyors of misery.
Conversations that I have at 6:30 am are usually essential or random. Mine today was the latter. There are people... Read more »
Start with Everest and work your way back.
I can’t claim originality on this title, I overheard a version of it this morning in another context, but it... Read more »
Expeditious
It’s not that I particularly try to be, I just am. This trait definitely never manifested itself in my schoolwork... Read more »
A saline dream
Sitting alone on my perch as the morning sun fights to break over the distant horizon, the inky blackness is... Read more »
Chess
Not the musical. I have been playing chess since I was about 8 years old. I was never really that... Read more »
Highway of regret
Twenty years ago at a youth development programme I was asked what two words would describe me; “no regrets,”... Read more »
Fly
At some point in our lives most of us will have a dream about flying. This dream isn’t rooted to... Read more »
Beneath your beautiful
Fifty years ago Paul McCartney and John Lennon sang about Eleanor Rigby and more recently Emelie Sanday joined Labrynth in... Read more »
Honestly?
I find myself saying this word involuntarily on too many occasions. The problem isn’t that I am surrounded by professional... Read more »
Summertime
I have never had the privilege of visiting Charleston (yet). I have never seen Porgy and Bess. I have never... Read more »
Be yourself
The ultimate joy of life is to be yourself. Oscar Wilde famously said, “be yourself, everyone else is already taken.”... Read more »
The day before today
The day before today was a good day! It was day filled with food and family, with love and laughter,... Read more »
Dunamis
Within each of us is the seed of potential to produce something vastly greater than ourselves. The tree on which... Read more »
SCDD
Same crap, different day! With surprising regularity this is the answer which comes my way in answer to a:... Read more »
Connoisseur
August had simmered to a mildly uninteresting close. With its departing it had taken the hope of summer ever... Read more »
Tired
In 1898 forty years after a certain Mr Goodyear patented vulcanised rubber, Frank Augustus Seiberling began the production of an... Read more »
Believe it
You can do it! I am a third generation house renovator. My grandfather bought two cottages and made them... Read more »
Early bird.
I am sorry if my morning exuberance and activity offends you…….who am I kidding, I am not in the... Read more »
Pushing and pausing
Coconut water and coconut oil are huge businesses in the health and beauty industry today. For about 3960 years... Read more »
Veritas
It says a lot about the culture of ancient Rome that they had a goddess of truth who... Read more »
When empty is good.
So many of us (particularly me) have a terribly skewed view of the situations within which we find ourselves. Over... Read more »
The positive power of negative.
As previously stated, I am not ever going to be a physics expert; I do, however, maintain an interest... Read more »
Ambivalent
“They are as dependable as a crooked bow” Somewhere, at this precise moment in every country around the world, there... Read more »
Crossroads
Stop at the crossroads and look around. What’s the rush? I send this question back through the years to my... Read more »
Unwritten
They say that the cemetery is the richest deposit of buried treasure in any country; therein lie millions of unwritten... Read more »
Pomposity
There is something in me that loves to hold a new human; meeting that brand new person and holding a... Read more »
Inexplicable
Sitting centuries ago in the public arena of his day a poet was observing the people passing by; poets have... Read more »