June 23, 2019
I’m in Tuscany this week being given a timely reminder of reasons to be grateful. At breakfast yesterday the talk, which had previously been dominated by my daughter’s misguided childhood belief that a small door into a garage next to the newsagent was, in fact, a nightclub for people with dwarfism, turned to death, as […]
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June 16, 2019
I am writing some feedback about an updated onboarding process for online therapy clients. It involves them setting clearer objectives and holding themselves accountable to more measurable results before clarifying the benefits they imagine experiencing once they hit those results. Measurement is everywhere now so it’s not a surprise, but I start to wonder how […]
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June 9, 2019
Taking the bus to Folkestone, Dave Clark and I are on the top deck in the front seats with a big bag of dark red cherries to share. We see if we can spit the stones up and out of the small window, open just a few inches to let in the dusty summer air. […]
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June 2, 2019
I haven’t seen my daughter recently. She seems to have been camped out at her boyfriends for the past few days. I don’t know if this is a girl thing but we often used to feel a bit guilty that my son’s girlfriend had pretty much moved in with us and hardly ever saw her […]
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May 26, 2019
There’s a guy I see most mornings on my walk to work. He is always standing at the rear of his car outside the nursery smoking a cigarette while his tiny daughter sits alone on the back seat. He stares into space dragging on his cigarette while she waits patiently to be unstrapped and taken […]
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