Reading that Provokes Thought

  What makes a difficult day? Hearing bad news?  Struggling with emotions?  Nothing going right? The first day of our…

Recently my daughter came back on a brief visit from Australia and went through all her books in the loft. …

I ate my first artichoke in Berre Les Alpes near Nice. It was delicious, if a little fiddly.  You peel…

  I am going through a restructure at work and it is bringing out the worst in me. As community…

I haven’t read this book, The Middlepause, by Marina Benjamin, but the article says, quoting Erik Erikson, ‘in ‘middlepause’, ‘I…

I am having a run on dead animals.  This week it is Dingle the dog. I finally scattered Dingle’s ashes…

A lot of significant travel experiences for me are made special by a deserted swimming pool in a beautiful location,…

I am standing before you today to attempt to spark your interest in befriending someone who is about to come…

    Admissions – A life in Brain Surgery is a second offering by Henry Marsh, following his critically acclaimed…

I have just finished reading ‘authentic relationships from the inside out’ by Sarah Abell. Because of the work I do,…

What makes a tough man or woman? I picked up this book in a charity shop. It was an easy…

I wonder sometimes how much crime an ordinary person should expect on average in a lifetime. I think I have…