Archetypes and Dating

Yes, I know this isn’t the usual post, but then I’m not doing usual things all the time, am I?
Laura Warrell, founder of The Man Panel open discussion events, has asked me to be a sort of special envoy to the dating world for her April 24th meeting. My aim is to tempt people to [...]

Pictures at an Exhibition

A short while ago I asked some of my workshop members to select pictures of themselves, aged about 5, and to examine and discuss what they saw.
At first the discussion was somewhat hilarious, looking at these snapshots of kids in unusual or cute poses, yet it quickly became obvious that there were two stories one [...]

Listening to the heart

I’ve recently begun asking colleagues for old and used books I can pass on to the Department of Youth Services.  Young offenders who read - and it doesn’t seem to matter much what they read - tend not to re-offend upon release.  It’s as though reading introduces them to another world so that they don’t [...]

Is all ever as it seems?

The other morning I nearly crushed another human being.  Driving down the road I met, in the middle of the lane coming towards me, a woman pushing a shopping trolley.  The sidewalk was not to her liking, but antiquated Buicks offering imminent destruction around curves were, it seemed, much more her cup of tea.
This person [...]

Spring

The trees are looking a bit more promising these days.  The twigs that looked so bare and naked in January have now, even at a distance, gained substance; and close inspection reveals that buds are waiting to make themselves known.
Each year Nature does this and each year we think it’s doing its renewal act.  But [...]