Category: Friends

  • Times of great stress or new challenges can be accompanied by moments of intense emotion. Such times in your life are when you need to just take a second and take stock. Rather than allow yourself to wallow too much, take action! This month I’ve found myself standing on the spot marvelling at the turns…

  • It’s going to be a busy time for me over the next few months, with my NEW BOOBS to be sorted out, and reconstruction operations and double mastectomies and so on . It really makes me chuckle to even think I’m getting fake boobs. I remember an evening in a place called the Sizzling Wok…

  • I can’t tell you the happiness involved in finding that food and drink tastes normal again! I feel very sympathetic towards old folks that have lost their sense of smell and can no longer enjoy their food. Being able to enjoy the flavours and smells of food and talk about food and drink is an…

  • I’m trying to stop being confused. I need to find some zen goodness and direction. I’ve always wanted to live life reaching out to other people and finding ways to gain common ground, to help people, to connect. I’ve been advised many times to stop expecting to understand anyone except myself. People are unpredictable. People let…

  • A number of friends have told me that 2012 has honestly been the worst year of their life. They have lost family members, friends, partners or have in some way had a loss that has set them into emotional freefall. I have to say that it certainly ranks as one of the toughest for me…