Who is the woman who wears these gloves?

She is the woman who is bold and daring, certain of herself, in the full flow of Life, moving to the silent music. She is the woman who is uninterested in your approval or praise, she is content and whole, her own best friend. She is the woman who finds joy and peace and pleasure…

Are you afraid to say it out loud?

That dream which lights you up, that glimpse into a possibility so breath-taking that you feel thrilled to be alive – are you afraid to say it out loud? That fear might be wisdom in disguise because other people’s doubts can be a hard thing for a fledgling dream to withstand. ‘How are you going…

The ‘I can’t’ cycle

That idea that just won’t go away – it’s not just any old idea is it? It’s one which lights you up every time you feel it calling you. And for those first few moments you feel the knowing, the certainty of it. Wouldn’t that be fantastic? Wow, you are in love with it! But…

Is there a right answer?

I failed my English ‘A’ level when I was 18 and I was very disappointed because I love to read and I love to write. It’s a while ago now but it seemed to me in those days that there were right answers when it came to interpreting poetry and Shakespeare and John Osborne –…

What I really want is to be careless

I had been shopping in town and as I was parking my car this thought occurred to me – ‘I don’t want to be careful anymore.’ And by careful I mean care-full – full of unnecessary concern about things over which I have no control. When I was a teenager I couldn’t wait to start…

Are you avoiding the coin toss?

You know when you have a choice to make and you’re trying to work out which option to pick – you’ve thought about it for a while, you’ve listed the pros and the cons and yet you are still sitting uncomfortably on the fence – still feeling like you don’t know. Just get a coin…

How do you really feel?

I was reading about personal values yesterday. I did the exercise in the book and I was surprised by a couple of the values that came at the top of the list for me. At first I thought they just didn’t fit and I was about to throw them aside but then as I paused…

You’re not shy

As long as I could remember I had been shy. When I hid behind my Mum as a little girl so that I wouldn’t be in the photograph or kissed by some distant relative they said I was shy. When I didn’t speak up in class at school they said I was shy. So I…

What is it about driving?

I don’t know what it is about driving but it often seems to bring out the little miss self-righteous in me. Yesterday I was sitting at a roundabout on my way home from the supermarket. It was fairly busy with a steady stream of traffic going past so I was waiting to pull out. Then…

I was just playing a role

So all these labels and roles which I have lived by, which I thought were who I am and what I had to do – that they were assigned by something outside of myself, that they were just a given – you know, that’s just how it is – were actually assigned to me by…