For the last year I have been seriously considering immigrating to Canada, this desire has been brought on by a sense of boredom but mainly of tiredness. I’m tired of having to fight every day to get a service running, I’m tired of inefficient and corrupt government agencies, I’m tired of seeing the enormous waste [...]

This weekend I attended an Enneagram workshop  - in a nutshell there are 9 personality types that we are born with, and from childhood wounds these become cemented into our psyche and become either healthy or seriously unhealthy. It was an eye-opening experience, the most profound for me (except for finally identifying the voice(s) in [...]

Whilst having dinner with friends the other night (one of which was pregnant) the discussion moved into the new role of women and men. My friend stated that everything that is wrong today is because women have left the ‘hearth’. After my initial and (internally violent) feminist reaction had passed I thought about what she [...]

I’m 2 weeks into the new year and already my plans of reigning in my ambition and sitting firmly on any kind of hectic schedule are falling by the wayside. This dawned on me rather suddenly when I went to the loo earlier on today. While I was waiting impatiently for my body to finish [...]