I’m trying to delete my social media accounts but it turns out that it isn’t as straightforward as you’d think. Like Donald Trump, freed this week from the responsibility to censure himself, I’m finding it hard to let go. I’ve considered that it might be symptomatic of something deeper. A reluctance to end things. My […]
The Stoppable Rise Of Technology
I have an app on my phone that identifies birdsong so that when I am walking through the woods I can tell a woodpecker from a robin. Every so often it insists on playing an advert that ironically makes me much less likely to buy whatever it is selling and makes me too bitter and […]
Reflective Journals Through The Medium Of Bananagrams
Over a game of “Bananagrams” at the dining room table shoehorned in before dinner, my daughter says, “We have to keep a reflective journal but I don’t know what to write in mine.” She places down letters to make the word “conundrum”, an irony I ignore because she’ll already be ahead of me. “I’ll show […]
Fixing A Problem That Does Not Exist
Cleaning the shelves I’ve removed all of the considerable numbers of books and immediately regretted my chutzpah whilst realising I have massively underestimated the amount of time it will take me to do it properly. I decided to begin when I grew tired of waiting for a response from my web host’s customer support team. […]
Why You Don’t Need To Be Good In Order To Be Good
The legendary TV artist Bob Ross has popped up several times this week making me wonder if he had a message for me from beyond the grave. First, I saw a post about him on social media, then I came across an article about why he is still popular so many years after his death. […]
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