So yesterday … and in order to understand this post you need to have read  The Day the Lists Stopped …  I had the most wonderful day – I did housework, a treatment, some gardening, had a couple of phone calls with family and watched lots of telly – and had an absolutely great time 🙂 And I guarantee you […]

Those of you who caught my post a couple of days ago might be interested to learn that the outcome feels very positive.  I have never asked for Tom and me to have a conversation about “our relationship” in that way before – a bit like sending out an agenda 🙂 I did wonder if it was a bit melodramatic […]

I think this is probably the kind of post that makes my mother think that sharing on the internet is one of the evils of the modern world – but I am about to share with anyone and everyone my current dilemma – my marriage.   As those of you who know me will know – I am married to […]

I nearly just sent an e-mail to my three daughters: I was going to ask for reassurance about my paranoia that they think I am crap with money. And then I thought, what could they possibly say?   If I am trying to be authentic – to be who I truly am – if I am trying to foster open […]

I have just come back from holiday – my mind always goes crazy when I am on holiday. And although the process was not always comfortable I have ended up somewhere really good.   Many of you may be familiar with “Desiderata” – I quote it in its entirety just in case anyone has not stumbled upon it: Desiderata Go […]

It was as I was uttering the words, “For fuck sake woman!” – “woman” being me – that I saw my life flash before me… I had just – of course – just waved around – vigorously shaking – a jar of fermented cultured milk…  This milk then splattered / sprayed all over my floor, my kitchen table, up the […]

Those of you who may have read one or other of my blogs recently,  will have picked up that I am getting pretty into the work of Brené Brown. When driving back from my mother’s yesterday I heard her say something that made me feel, “If only this had been said to me – certainly daily – maybe hourly – […]

Following my recent two posts on minding the gap and immersing myself in the work of Brené Brown … I found myself revisiting something that happened about five years ago.  A thing that has haunted me…   About five years ago a friend who was in the throes of a very painful marriage breakup came to dinner with Tom and […]

I have never done this before – seems rather ego centric and pleased with myself!! – but I am going to quote from my last blog post “Mind the Gap” – because today’s will make no sense without a sense of what happened on Monday – think of it like those “in last week’s episode…” recaps they do on the […]

I have had an epiphany. When I was working with some particularly wonderful people over a decade ago I was taught to “watch for the gap” – this gap was the gap between what our employers said they expected from us – what miracles they envisaged we would achieve with our client group – and what was actually possible / […]