“Try again. Fail again. Fail better” – Samuel Beckett Approximately one year ago, after a fortnight of my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome flaring and making me question my ability to achieve my goals, I became even more determined and set my… Continue reading
‘Don’t try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling’ – Priyanka Chopra If you follow me on any of the social media sites (I’m on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn!), you may have noticed quite… Continue reading
‘When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy’ – Chinese proverb It is Sunday morning – and I have a head cold. Nothing that a couple of hot whiskeys and lemon won’t sort out quickly, but it’s irritating.… Continue reading
‘There are far, far better things ahead than anything we left behind’ – C.S.Lewis It’s been two months since I became unwell with severe tonsillitis and the strange thing is, we are now already into a new year, and despite… Continue reading
‘You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously’ – Sophia Bush It has been a few weeks since I shared the most difficult thing I had ever written – my story. If you haven’t read it… Continue reading
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu As Alan and I celebrate our first wedding anniversary this autumnal September week, I want to share again a blog which I originally wrote… Continue reading
Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts (Winston Churchill) On Wednesday morning I was getting ready for work and listening to Radio 5 Live news, as I always do, when a… Continue reading
‘It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently’ (Anthony Robbins) This week I was asked to contribute to another blog about a book that inspired me. Whilst biographies about other people’s lives… Continue reading
‘Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again’ C.S.Lewis I have just left my 11 year-old daughter at the school gate, the same school gate I walked through for seven (tumultuous) teenage years of my… Continue reading
When I think of Death ‘When I think of death, and of late the idea has come with alarming frequency, I seem at peace with the idea that a day will dawn when I will no longer be among those… Continue reading