Yoga – the facts
I’m hoping to start my yoga teacher training in 2018 so that I can use it in the schools I work in and so was reading The Science of Yoga (see link below) over last weekend.
On the Psychologies Magazine blog site I wrote about the 13 ways that I had found that yoga had … Read more
Why kids should do chores
My kids are getting older now (10 and 14) and so are accomplished at helping out with chores. I don’t pay them to help because I don’t get paid and I want them to understand that they are part of a mini-community called ‘a family’ and in communities we all have to pull our weight.… Read more
Mother Threw New Born – Who cares?
I spotted this headline outside our village shop and saw red.
The story in The Advertiser told of how a 31 year old woman who threw her newborn baby out of the window.
She had kept her ‘unwanted pregnancy’ ‘a secret’ and had ‘had expressed a desire to kills both herself and her unborn … Read more
Work – servant not mistress
As the last weekend of the school holidays is upon us, I’ve been thinking about going back to work and reflecting about the nature of work itself.
Work to serve the life you want to lead
I was in a local hotel, writing over the summer and I could overhear the bar manager as I … Read more
One Step at a Time
This has been my year of making steps. It started the weekend of my 50th birthday celebrations and now is at the ‘minor improvements’ stage.
I have lived at this house for many years but my relationship with the river bank has really changed in the last 12 months. It started when the access we … Read more
Rings – ringing the changes for how we think about rings
These are the rings I am wearing right now.
I didn’t used to wear shiny rings but actually, I’m 50, if not now then when?
These rings tell a stories, as all rings do.
The three gold bands are made out of the gold of my marriage, which ended in divorce.
I re-created them as … Read more
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