Somebody once told me the definition of hell: “On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous, CNBC I like to think my family and friends consider I’m a success but we’ve had many conversations over the years that…

I have been having a long standing romance that isn’t with my husband. It has on many a occasion meant taking my attention and care elsewhere. Yet I feel no guilt and would do it again if caught….. Let me justify. I have a tenderness towards words. Apparently I am…

Every now and then I catch cost centre 3 with unnaturally rosy cheeks or as Mills and Boons used to put it, bruised lips. I do a double take and question. Shyly the response is she has been experimenting with make-up. My little one is 10 years old and to…

Do you catch yourself regularly doing something expected yet unexpected. And when you rationalise it’s impossible to explain? Let me elaborate. It has dawned on me I carry out idiosyncratic rituals that have no rhyme or reason. I suppose I have never, contrary to my desire, been a carefree person…

I’ve recently experienced bereavement. I find it perplexing that our frail bodies and minds confront it as part of being human because it is a ferocious and jarring encounter. Grief can arise from a multitude of circumstances — the break up of a friendship, the loss of something personal, a…

I am fascinated by the existence and need for religion having been cajoled by a mother who found deep support and understanding through it to a father whose logical wiring could never accept its broad premise. It conjures a variety of perspectives which for some never the twain shall meet…

So this is odd for me. A follow on post! Last time I discussed originality and very unscientifically concluded we still have much to discover and create. Long live originality. However here’s the dilemma. Most of us like to think we can be original and in fact have been in…

I often catch myself having discussions about whether we will run out of novel ideas, stutter on never before heard music, or fail to riff intriguingly on words. Have we reached the limits of originality? I don’t feel so or more truthfully cannot bear the thought we have. One of…

I have heard it termed ‘ the dark side of emotional intelligence’. Why is manipulation part of the human tool kit? Why do we engage in manipulation in much more of our daily lives than we are willing to admit — how malign a term is it? …