Smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitu...
Mind her when I’m away?’ I stayed overnight in
You don't have to sleep with someone, you can be unfaithful with your emotions.
Where’s that guy with the coffee?’ ‘I’m here.’ Mannix had appeared. ‘You went to Costa Rica for the beans?
To be able to scratch the sole of my foot using the big toe of the other foot is nothing short of a miracle.
The thing about personal growth, I’ve discovered, is that you rarely get any choice in it. It only ever happens as a side-effect of some loss or trauma.
The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Perhaps one day in the far-off future, when I’m about eighty-nine, I might look back and say, When I was a young-ish woman I fell in love with an intense charismatic man. He was way out of my league a...
My life was a wreck. I had nothing, no material possessions, unless debts counts. Fourteen pairs of shoes that were too small for me was all I had to show after a lifetime of profligate spending. I ha...
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do comp...
I remember reading somewhere that the chemicals produced in the brain by a lengthy Twitter session are similar to those produced by cocaine.
I rang my mother to thank her for giving birth to me and she said, What choice had I? You were in there, how else were you going to get out?
I know forty-one is the new eighteen, but tell that to my metabolism.
I knew then that life was no respecter of circumstance. The force that flings disasters at us doesn't say Well, I won't give her that lump in her breast for another year. Best to let her recover from...
Her world had shrunk - no matter who she was with, she'd prefer to be with him. That's what happened when you fell in love - you only want to see them.
Hamstrung as I am with shortness and a tendency to roundness, which I need to watch like a hawk, I certainly don’t look the part.
Desserts. I ordered banoffee pie.
And it mightn’t be
Where does love go when it dies? Into flowers and other beautiful things? Back out into the universe to be recycled?
This being human is a Guest House Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re...