life

Today – 29 January – is my birthday. My 50th birthday. Fifty. The big five oh. This isn’t one of those...

29 January 2016

Fake authenticity: the compassion lie

I may lose friends. I may attract abuse. But this is one of those moments when I feel like I...

10 November 2012

On this day last year I visited a firework display in the grounds of a local hospice. It caused me...

30 October 2011

Life is a journey. The detours it takes you on are many and varied, and not always within your power...

25 January 2011

Most of us are conceived in the heat of the moment. The result of an impassioned tryst between our parents....

9 October 2010