I recently attended a reunion for my father’s mother’s side of the family (my paternal grandmother). Around a hundred people were present and as I circulated around the room, I was very struck by the warmth, realness and smiley nature of those present (and the distinctly self-owning more solitary nature of others).
I […]
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As a spiritual person, I found it quite shocking when my equally spiritual husband showed me an article titled ‘Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority’ which appeared in a website for a US university (University of Minnesota). The article refered to a study of 2,000 households across the US in […]
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I recently read an essay by a writer friend (and self confessed ‘ex sociopath’), Jeanette Purkis, who was talking about a cycle of poverty in which those born poor stay poor. Whilst this is often so, what intrigued me was that she was specifically referring to those born to families who disrespected education, authority […]
Read the rest of Don’t poison the children - the corruption of young minds
The public person is a strange beast. Who on earth would want to be out there for all and sundry to goggle and criticise? Is the public person always self confident? A narcissist? An exhibitionist? An opportunist seeking to sell something?
Read the rest of The public loner - solitary people are normal too.
‘I lose time’, said the woman across the table from me.It was the follow-up sentence after having told me she lived with a mental health problem.’Do you tell this to all your customers?’ I asked, perplexed. She had just told me she was a ‘multiple’.
Read the rest of Losing Time - Dissociative Identity Disorder and the real time travellers.
We went to visit an old friend on the weekend. He’d be diagnosed with coeliac 12 months ago in his 50s and had been through lots of health complications (including being told to increase bran!) before finding out.
Read the rest of The Dietary Wheelchair; a broader look at Coeliac and gluten intolerance as dietary disabilities.
If I had a box for my soul
I’d hope for one made of dust
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Got back from Japan last week.
Somewhere in a mosaic of tepanyaki, a duck billed bullet train on Tokyo station, lecture theatres with black curtains and backstage bento boxes, I delivered two big seminars to around 800 people.
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Ah, blogging… kind of like blahing whilst sitting on a log… blogging.
So I can do this, I know I can do this… right, where’s the log…
Actually we have one greeting visitors, its called ‘the groin’. Its a rather rude log that I found when a massive willow tree fell and the logging […]
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