Everywhere you look there seems to be advice to switch off your devices in an effort to find greater peace and balance in our lives, but what if the issue is not so much with the digital world itself but just the way we tend to use it? I'm not in my house and I didn't bring my phone with me so, … [Read more...] about Say No To A Digital Detox
Relationships
Counting Blessings
In the park, they've had a team working to raise the height of the path at the little stone bridge because it has a tendency to flood and joggers get their expensive trainers wet. This annoyed me and I wasted a good deal of emotional energy complaining to my sister about it at the weekend, just … [Read more...] about Counting Blessings
An Existential Crisis
How do we deal with the ultimate existential crisis, a fear of dying? What can we do when we can no longer fall back on the tried and tested answer to the majority of anxieties, "don't worry, it might never happen," when you know full well that it will? I seem to have been writing a lot about … [Read more...] about An Existential Crisis
A Practical Death
How do we deal with death when we realise, at the end of someone's life, how little we really understood about them? My father-in-law died this week after a mercifully short illness. He was, in many ways, a difficult man but what he could not make out of an old discarded pallet was unlikely to … [Read more...] about A Practical Death
Who Do You Love?
It's Valentine's Day tomorrow and there will be celebration, disappointment, argument, joy, passive aggression, and goodness knows what else as couples wrestle with the need to meet their expectations of one another. The relationship that may be ignored in all of this is the one you have with the … [Read more...] about Who Do You Love?