I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently and this is an attempt to distill my thoughts and those sent to me in e-mails and the comments I received on this particular subject. You are…
Posts tagged Personal
A visit by the narcissistic few
I’ve been on the receiving end of some rather malicious gossip recently and internet trolling. It’s been an experience, interestingly calling the troll out has largely made her go away. The troll not been visiting…
Not quite Tom Seleck yet…
It’s now been a week since Movember started. My upper lip has made it to fluffy caterpillar stage and not started itching yet, but does look strange and required an explanation once or twice. It’s…
At unexpected moments
It comes on at strange unexpected moments. Today was sitting on the airplane reading a proper semi-business related grown up book (with only a few pictures) about the growth of the organization behind the London…
The toughest thing
In the slightly bigger picture, over the last couple of months I’ve received a number of comments to this blog, always posted anonymously under the same name “davehasnofriends”. There is no such thing as anonymous…
More thoughts…
Out of all the things I did wrong, as a stepparent the most significant was not setting and ensuring my personal boundaries were respected, and this was my fault to a large extent. There were…
It never really goes away, but it gets better
Yesterday I saw the A-Team movie (and admitting to it). It’s not exactly an intellectual challenge, but taken for what it is was a decent way to distract me for a couple of hours. The…
Foundations
I’ve never been one for the self help books that seem to be on many nightstands and claim to help you find that ever elusive passion.
Spring time is here
I think most people have a happy place; one of mine is the North Downs in southern England. A couple of weeks ago among all the pressure and emotion I made a couple of hours…