Being human
and life's little mysteries

Since I was three years old, I’ve been poked and prodded by strangers more times than I can count, or even remember. Hundreds of blood...

Monday, October 10th was World Mental Health Day. The stigma around mental health, its causes and treatments, and how the stigma itself...

Someone recently contacted me in reponse to my latest newsletter, requesting to be removed from future communications because they...

March, 2020. By the time Covid broke out, I had stopped commuting into London on a weekly basis for work. After four months, it had...

Gurur Brahmā Gurur Viṣṇur Gurur devo Maheśvaraḥ Guruḥ sākṣāt paraṁ Brahma tasmai śrī gurave namaḥ Our creation is that guru (Brahma-the...

Ever notice how affected you are by external conditions? There's a favourite topic of this country, the weather, but there are other...

Many of you know me to be a practitioner of yoga and veganism, which I have subscribed to at two distinct points of my life: as a late...

As 2021 approaches, we have yet another moment of looking through a portal – a point between A and B that feels, sometimes, like no man’s...

The funny things I remember about Mrs. Honan are how she held the chalkboard eraser (it dangled from her hand and often fell to the...

Morning view from kitchen. As The leaves have fallen off this statuesque beech tree, so too I’ve been going through my own state of...

Back to the Future I recently was in Dartmoor, the home to several Bronze Age ruins. Grimspound is the best preserved stone circular...

Lessons learned from the Coastal Path : a summer update Hiking, or rambling as they call it here in England, has always been a favourite...

Isolation Day 84. Dear Diary, Another month has been marked off the calendar; a month where after many weeks of hunkering down and...

Self Isolation, Day 19 Dear Diary, As humans, we seem to be in unfamiliar territory. Yes, there have been famines and wars, but those...

Self-isolation day 07 This is an invitation, a calling out to all your Hive-Minded Yogis and friends who are working on an inspiring...

Why yes, aged-Genexers huddled into a little self-protective fetal position, it is. Self-isolation, Day 04, 05, 06, 07. It’s all...

Of all the places one would expect to find oneself after proclaiming to the world the self-isolation is inevitable, here I am waiting in...

Hello Friends, We are living through extra-ordinary times. Unprecedented times. Times that maybe even will give rise to social...

…but the real winning is in having the courage to get wet. Bhagavan Das once told me ‘Life is messy, you’ve got to roll your sleeves up...

When it’s a Dark and Stormy Night, you’re in a touch of bad weather. As a girl I was a Snoopy fanatic, in fact, one of my great parenting...