I’m driving my daughter to Canterbury for her first Fresher’s event. She’s doing her makeup in the passenger seat and I’m wondering why I agreed to collect her again later when the club ends, at 2 am tomorrow morning. “How are you feeling?” I ask “I’m fine. I’m a bit..” “Trepidatious?” I … [Read more...] about How To Know What Is Yours
Self Acceptance
How To Find Yourself
My daughter has just been away on holiday with her boyfriend on the beautiful Welsh coast. She arrived home with a bag full of enthusiasm and strangely flavoured rock. Last night she was home for dinner and it felt like an age since I'd seen her. "You must miss her. She was always in your … [Read more...] about How To Find Yourself
Why It’s OK To Get Old
I had a birthday this week and it seems to have come around far too quickly. I probably wrote this very sentence last year but I can’t find the energy to go back and check. Since last year I’ve had a back problem (which autocorrected to “ball problem” before I luckily spotted it with my one … [Read more...] about Why It’s OK To Get Old
How To Value Yourself
This week I was returning home from walking the dog and the couple I wrote about recently came around the corner. I heard them long before I saw them as if they’d continued on in a perpetual state of argument since the last time they appeared, him skulking moodily with a cigarette hanging from his … [Read more...] about How To Value Yourself
How To Compare Yourself With Other People
I’m having a conversation, by text, with my daughter the day before the A level results are published. Me: What are you doing today? Her: I’m tidying up. I’m stressed about tomorrow and keeping myself distracted. Me: You’ll know soon and then you can look to the future. Her: Yes but not … [Read more...] about How To Compare Yourself With Other People