Today is Ash Wednesday. Today many churches, especially those higher up the candle – the Catholic end of things – will have held ashin...

Reading the excellent, comprehensive, astonishingly informative Macrobiotics for Dummies last night, I came across a phrase I didn’t...

Hey friends, look at this ! Mathew in Canada has resolved to live for a year in his van, mostly parked in an alleyway I think. Intriguin...

Our classroom, when I was nine years old, was quite special.  Our school stood on the top of a steep hill, with two playgrounds that we ca...

The other day, Daisy asked about my 365 chuckout – this was where I disposed of one possession for each day of last year, and got ri...

Darn. I was going to tell you about something really really interesting and now I forgot completely what. Sigh. Anyway, apart ...

When Jesus taught the people, I wonder how he sat? There’s a famous painting by Rembrandt of King David and the prophet Nathan.  It ca...

Descartes famously said ‘I think therefore I am’, but Tolle and others rightly point out there’s more to it than that – there’s also an inn...

Sometimes I go back and read the books I have written, because they remind me of the principles I try to live by. Recently, perhaps...

My attention stops on something the preacher says. Turns its head. Asks: “What did you say?” The rest is forgotten. Last S...