Wants vs needs — understanding ourselves better

A quadrant based prioritization approach

Protecting Children’s Innocence

I was at a Mum and baby group with two of my children when my daughter started touching her vulva…

Don’t Be Mad ’Cause I’m Doin’ Me Better Than You Doin’ You.

Were Your Parents As Secretive As Mine?

I believe women can’t keep a secret because they talk too much. I believe men can because they aren’t listening to you in the first place. Neither of these statements, however, applies to my family. Both my parents were so secretive they probably killed JFK…

Creative Gridlock

The Audacity of Making Things

Hope Sounds Like

Hope sounds like a late-night party (I’m not a party person but I like to hear other people have a good time with their friends).

Hope sounds like a usually angry person speaking softly with a gentle face.

Hope Looks Like

Hope looks like a person who thinks I’m worth talking to and whom I have no problem giving my time to.

Hope looks like stray cats having something to eat every day.

Hope looks like sleeping safely, soundlessly, deeply.

CAN A WHITE MAN MAKE A NIGERIAN LAUGH?

Comedy Monday

For the love of Herbie

Reading an article with my breakfast cup of tea today, the writer mentioned an old VW Beetle car, and that took me…

You’ll Know When It’s Real

“There was a time when I would have believed them if they’d told me you could not come true — just love’s…

Food: First Hamburgers of 2017

There is nothing so yummy as firing up the BBQ on the first really warm Spring day (for us) and cooking…

Grow more

Take some time out to throw
a fistful of seeds out the door 
when next you eat a fruit:
and some will surely take root.
Their fruits will be…