Why no Computer?

A quick post for me.
Wanted to see how it would feel like to be without the computer for  5 days, a week seemed too long, and also to do those tasks that I have been meaning to get done. Apart from 5 mins of e-mails that would be it. Planned to phone some long-distance friends, [...]

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Valentine Love

My husband and I always have mixed feelings about celebrating Valentines day. We hate the commercialism of the whole thing and the pressure that cards and flowers should be given, and any potential disappointment, if say a modest bunch of flowers were bought, instead of the most expensive ones on display.
Each year, men gather around the red [...]

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Just What the Doctor Ordered

October 31st is a day that everyone remembers. It is Halloween night and for us the anniversary of some friends who got married six weeks before we did. October 31st will also be significant for me and my other-half. It was the day that we were told my husband has a chronic, life- limiting condition of [...]

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Learning

The word learning will have many different meanings to people and how their own views, believes, perceptions and thoughts, when pondering upon its definition, will differ and perhaps extend to another word linked to learning, that being education. Education and learning for me, and to many other thinkers, philosophers, teachers and writers will be words viewed as a process entwined both together as well as separately. To be educated does not [...]

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B- I- B- L- E

B - I – B -L – E :  Biblical Instruction Before Leaving Earth.
This abbreviation will stay with me. It was discovered one recent Sunday evening as I started to watch the Channel 4 documentary ” Make me a Christian.” The main aim for me was to discover one thing. What evidence did the ministers, involved in this [...]

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The 29th August.

A rather frightening and sobering thought occurred to me late yesterday evening. It was the 29th August, a date that will always stick in my memory, etched into my being for as long as I dwell upon this earth.
On August 29th 1984, I met and walked into a relationship that was to have the most [...]

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A Prison

 
A prison was often not of walls when you are free.
A prison can be a place where you yourself can place thee.
A prison may be a state of mind that surrounds you.
A prison might be a frozen place for thoughts that haunt too.
A prison could be a place of silence, fears and tears.
A prison is [...]

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Cleaning

Today, I want to write a little about cleaning. Boring you say! Yes, cleaning is tedious, repetitive and time consuming. Like relationships you just have to keep scrubbing away hoping the dirt will come off eventually. so today, I am talking about cleaning, but then again I am not talking about cleaning. After writing Reflections [...]

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Love’s Executioner

It is not very often that I read 111 pages all in one gigantic reading session. But this was no ordinary book: this was I.D Yalom’s Love Executioner. Gripping, absorbing, compelling, this is one book where the word novel could not even begin to describe it accurately. It was certainly a story book. Actually, a [...]

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When Nietzsche Wept

A recent fan of acclaimed pyschotherapist I yalom, I went off today in search of his works on Amazon. Having read parts of Existential Pyschotherapy which inspired me to write The Field of Bricks, and now the totally gripping and compelling Love’s Executioner and other tales of psychotherapy, I am intrigued to find out more about [...]

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