It’s beginning to…. No category December 21, 2015 Global warming is really starting to take it’s toll. Personally I blame Bing Crosby, it wasn’t really his fault that... Read more »
Its a wonderful…… No category December 18, 2015 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. No category December 17, 2015 Standing beside a road watching a point of no particular interest on the other side. Eight lanes of speeding traffic... Read more »
Christmas Elf No category December 16, 2015 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 No category December 15, 2015 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 No category December 14, 2015 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 No category December 12, 2015 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! No category December 9, 2015 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. No category December 8, 2015 I hear you Sheryl. The differences between Roman culture and all others are many, but few things sum it... Read more »
Teeth rattled. No category December 7, 2015 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 No category December 6, 2015 I like people watching. People are amazing, they are are study all of their own. In our early married days... Read more »
Silence No category December 6, 2015 It has been a very noisy day today. It just seems like some days go from one decibelic level to... Read more »
Motivational Mafia No category December 2, 2015 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 category December 1, 2015 No, not the song that has burrowed like a worm into your brain. In 1988 we took a trip... Read more »
What motivates me? No category November 30, 2015 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. No category November 29, 2015 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! No category November 28, 2015 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 No category November 25, 2015 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 No category November 24, 2015 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. No category November 23, 2015 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… No category November 22, 2015 …….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. No category November 19, 2015 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 No category November 18, 2015 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. No category November 17, 2015 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. No category November 16, 2015 I can’t claim originality on this title, I overheard a version of it this morning in another context, but it... Read more »
Expeditious No category November 12, 2015 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 No category November 11, 2015 Sitting alone on my perch as the morning sun fights to break over the distant horizon, the inky blackness is... Read more »
Chess No category November 10, 2015 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 No category November 9, 2015 Twenty years ago at a youth development programme I was asked what two words would describe me; “no regrets,”... Read more »
Fly No category November 8, 2015 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 No category November 5, 2015 Fifty years ago Paul McCartney and John Lennon sang about Eleanor Rigby and more recently Emelie Sanday joined Labrynth in... Read more »
Honestly? No category November 3, 2015 I find myself saying this word involuntarily on too many occasions. The problem isn’t that I am surrounded by professional... Read more »
Summertime No category October 29, 2015 I have never had the privilege of visiting Charleston (yet). I have never seen Porgy and Bess. I have never... Read more »
Be yourself No category October 28, 2015 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 No category October 26, 2015 The day before today was a good day! It was day filled with food and family, with love and laughter,... Read more »
Dunamis No category October 25, 2015 Within each of us is the seed of potential to produce something vastly greater than ourselves. The tree on which... Read more »
SCDD No category October 22, 2015 Same crap, different day! With surprising regularity this is the answer which comes my way in answer to a:... Read more »
Connoisseur No category October 21, 2015 August had simmered to a mildly uninteresting close. With its departing it had taken the hope of summer ever... Read more »
Tired No category October 20, 2015 In 1898 forty years after a certain Mr Goodyear patented vulcanised rubber, Frank Augustus Seiberling began the production of an... Read more »
Believe it No category October 19, 2015 You can do it! I am a third generation house renovator. My grandfather bought two cottages and made them... Read more »
Early bird. No category October 15, 2015 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 No category October 14, 2015 Coconut water and coconut oil are huge businesses in the health and beauty industry today. For about 3960 years... Read more »
Veritas No category October 13, 2015 It says a lot about the culture of ancient Rome that they had a goddess of truth who... Read more »
When empty is good. No category October 12, 2015 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. No category October 10, 2015 As previously stated, I am not ever going to be a physics expert; I do, however, maintain an interest... Read more »
Ambivalent No category October 8, 2015 “They are as dependable as a crooked bow” Somewhere, at this precise moment in every country around the world, there... Read more »
Crossroads No category October 6, 2015 Stop at the crossroads and look around. What’s the rush? I send this question back through the years to my... Read more »
Unwritten No category October 5, 2015 They say that the cemetery is the richest deposit of buried treasure in any country; therein lie millions of unwritten... Read more »
Pomposity No category October 3, 2015 There is something in me that loves to hold a new human; meeting that brand new person and holding a... Read more »
Inexplicable No category October 1, 2015 Sitting centuries ago in the public arena of his day a poet was observing the people passing by; poets have... Read more »