Apr 3, 2024 | Reflections
What if— What if is a question that usually pops up at some time in our lives. What if I had taken that job? What if I’d married that woman and not missed my chance? What if I had spoken up at that meeting and not kept quiet? Or if you are a bit of a history buff...
Mar 4, 2024 | Reflections
What’s love got to do with it? I read recently that February has long been regarded as a romantic month. Personally I find it hard to see why. Like January, it’s dank, cold and wet. Everything still looks bare. It’s another winter month to be endured. Yet in the...
Feb 5, 2024 | Reflections
What now? It’s finally over. The tree’s packed away for another year. The chocolates are eaten (at least in my house). The presents are put away or in some cases sold via E-Bay as soon as granny is safely back home. Now we have a new year to face and what does it...
Jan 8, 2024 | Reflections
What use is Santa? What a question! He’s the man who makes it all possible with his sleigh and his reindeer and his bag full of goodies. He’s the face that beams out of Christmas cards and wrapping paper. He’s the centrepiece of children’s parties. He fills the hearts...
Nov 30, 2023 | Reflections
Letting Go. Over the last few weeks our screens have been filled by terrible images of violence from the Middle East. Grief stricken Israeli families trying to come to terms with loved ones taken from them in the most horrific manner. Equally grief stricken...
Nov 7, 2023 | Reflections
Lives of quiet desperation There is a story from my childhood that still haunts me. A doctor in a small French village is visited by a young man who is depressed. The doctor is a very kind man and as he listens to the young man pouring his heart out he desperately...
