Man with Surfboard by Sea

How to relax when you’re running a world war

Do you sometimes find it hard to switch off?  Have you ever come back from a break saying, ‘It was nice but work was...

May 1, 2018
Orange & Yellow Flowers

Spring clean yourself

Heaven knows what possessed him do it.  HIs Managing Director had spotted that his company van looked like it had...

April 1, 2018
Building in Shape of Eye

Buddha was right – the world’s an illusion

Everything you’re seeing, hearing, touching and smelling is an illusion – a show put on for you by your brain.  If...

March 1, 2018
Russian Dolls with Cracked Face

I wanna be like you

Why did he copy his tormentors? As a child and later a teenager in Mao’s Cultural Revolution, President Xi Jinping of...

February 1, 2018
Snow on Trees

New Year, New Hope

You may have a great opportunity before you, presented by a New Year.  As we stand at the end of the old and the start...

January 1, 2018
Logs Surrounding Fire Place

Happy Christmas or Bleak Midwinter?

‘Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind’.  The words of US President Calvin Coolidge.  What state...

December 2, 2017
Police Riot Team in Streets

The appeal of Big Brother

You can’t get a job, a passport, a loan, a mortgage, insurance or a good school place for your children.  Why? ...

November 1, 2017
Circle Inside Circle

Why you could get a lot out of group therapy

‘It’s a real adventure.  You’re constantly discovering new things about yourself and other people.  You get the...

October 1, 2017
Colourful Letters

Words fail me

One of the worst blunders in the history of foreign language translation was made by a Russian interpreter assisting...

September 2, 2017
People Sunbathing on Beach

We’re all glowing on a summer holiday

It started to go wrong on the ferry over.  He’d built his car himself from a kit and it was his pride and joy.  He...

August 1, 2017
Sparkling Hand

That pain could be telling you something interesting

Three engineering students were talking about what kind of God designed the human body.  The first said, ‘God must be...

July 2, 2017
School of Fish in Ocean

Who does your mind belong to?

Are you the sole owner of your mind?  Maybe not quite as much as you think. A while back I came across an empty...

June 1, 2017