Happy Isn’t Getting It All
What does being happy have to do with getting what you want?
Wisdom
Bad Advice
25 years ago Mary Schmidt wrote ‘Tips from a speech never given’. It was read by many people including a teen me. I thought some day I’d be able to tell people how to life right. I’m at mid-life crisis because how else to describe someone who refuses to act…
5 Lessons From A Bad Haircut
I got a painfully bad haircut. What could I do? Would throwing a tantrum change it? Instead, I learnt.
Locked Heart
You cannot make someone love you. No matter how wonderful, talented, beautiful, fabulous, kind, generous or successful you are. It’s an immutable law of nature. Because the heart that is locked, contains its own key within it. Discovering that is every person’s individual quest and no one else has any…
Caged
If there is a God,then why did he give me wings and a cage?
Memoirs Of A Story-teller
I saw a tag floating around and decided to write my own memoirs in 6 words: I strove for individuality, then acceptance.
Little Reminders
I thought inspiration could only come from the young. But rejuvenation comes from those who have weathered it already. I had a little reminder.
Dharma
Mum shook me awake at 4 a.m. Grandmother had fallen down in the bathroom and wasn’t able to get up. Mum couldn’t pick her up either. We got her up and put her back to bed. And then I patted her arm and soothed her brow. Full circle from the…