Dreadful Parenting

Recently, on a delayed trans-atlantic flight that had me cornered at the back of the plane with no less than three families of young children, I had a chance to observe differing parenting skills.  The very young children in my immediate seating vicinity were all approximately the same ages (each family had two, about 14 [...]

Let’s Get Real, part III

I’ve just gone to my mailbox and deleted 113 items of spam.  At first I was a tad annoyed.  Some of this spam is designed to take up dozens of pages per item, clearly hoping to annoy me.  What can they possibly gain from this?  I have no idea.  Other items are attempting to sell [...]

Let’s be real, part II

Since I wrote the first of these posts I’ve had some lovely responses (quite a few of them coming through Intent.com) with sensitive insights into how easy it can be to slip into an on-line persona, or indeed any kind of persona. I am immensely grateful for the honesty and wisdom so many of you [...]

Let’s be real

One thing I’ve noticed, again and again, is that the internet allows us to adopt a persona - a mask that conveys an impression we wish to convey - and that such a persona wouldn’t last very long in a face to face conversation with someone who truly knows us.
I’ve seen it all too often. [...]

Computers and people are the same - really

Computers get viruses, slow down, and become less than they could be.  This much we know.  And, in case you haven’t noticed, people are exactly the same way.
In our travels and our interactions with people we pick up attitudes, we mirror what people tell us, and we take on the flavor of wherever and who [...]

Something for nothing

We’ve been attempting to grow organic tomatoes again this year, and it hasn’t been successful because of the weather. So I was eyeing the five tomatoes we actually have when I noticed one was missing and then I saw….

Which let me know several things. First, the tomatoes were ripe. Second, I’m not [...]

Horizons new

Every so often I get the urge to move house.  What this means, I now know, is that I don’t actually want to move my place of residence, but that I wish to move myself personally to a new, more invigorating space. The mind uses metaphors.
Nevertheless, I act on this impulse to the extent that [...]

Do You Love Yourself?

The relationship we have with ourselves is mirrored in the relationships we have with others.
If you’re wondering why your outer relationships are a bit scrambled, look inward first; similarly, if you’re confused about your relationship with yourself, take a look at what’s occuring with your interactions with others.  It’ll give you useful clues. For instance: [...]

New videos for you….

I’ll be loading the latest video interview I did with Lilou Mace yesterday, within the next few minutes, and I’ll put it on my ‘YouTube’ page here if you care to take a look.  It’s already on YouTube itself and on Facebook, so I felt putting it here in my blog might seem like overload [...]