In this new year, I hope you come to see how utterly amazing you are. That despite the challenges the past year brought, you gritted your...

The hour hand on the clock crawls towards twelve. Shadow pools in spaces once occupied by sunlight. A hush descends in the air, the...

I got off the bus one stop early a few weeks back, thinking I’d stretch my legs and get some steps in. As I approached a slip road, I...

A while back I wrote a post about grief. It was partly an update on why I had taken a social media hiatus, partly an outlet for me to...

My dad has dementia. He finds it challenging to perform some spatial functions and complex tasks. Largely, though, it’s him being...

I had an unexpected passing in my family recently, one that hit me hard, one which I’m still processing. It’s not that I’ve never lost...

Once, when I was about nine, it was raining when my aunt and I alighted from the bus. Home was quite a distance away and neither of us...

As the new year unfolds and unexpected paths open up, may you embrace this strange, new world bravely. If the path is rocky, may there be...

There’s this story leadership keynote speaker Ryan Estis shares in his talks. He was at the airport one Christmas Eve when he decided to...

I took this photograph a while back. It sat languishing in a folder somewhere, along with the thousands of other photographs that I had...

As the sky slowly sheds its midnight cloak and slips into a rose‑coloured veil, it is time for you to rouse from your slumber. All...

This is a shot I have wanted to capture for a while. Or rather it is an approximation of the idea I have in mind. For my ambition is to...

There are different kinds of quiet that I relish. There is the still kind of quiet in the deep of the night when your part of the world...

It was a friend who first clued me in on the importance of doing nothing. I was telling her how guilty I felt for not accomplishing...

Great conversations are like food for the soul. It nourishes and energises you and prompts you to grow. The best conversations I have are...

Beginnings evoke mixed feelings in me. On the one hand, it is always scary to step off the well-trodden path and into the unknown. On the...