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Woof-Woof
“Mama, can you bring me Woof-Woof?” “Sure, let me go to the playroom and get her.” “But, I looked there already. She’s not there.” “Don’t...
Aug 9, 20222 min read


Eating My Cake
As I stroked my six year-old’s head, her brow clammy from fever, I was still and present. I remembered something I’d heard a few days...
Aug 2, 20221 min read


The Starfish
I just had my first mini Magnum. It was yummy. But I am sad. They are so small. It totally brought up my scarcity mindset. Then,...
Jul 26, 20222 min read


The Right Man
When the right man walks into your life, it changes everything. It was a random day in the middle of a random month, the 18th to be...
Jul 19, 20221 min read


The Elephant
As the heavy lemons kept falling out of the tree and thumping me on my head, I realized I needed a solution - and fast. I didn’t like the...
Jul 12, 20222 min read


The Void
I am so sad. I am eating to run. The food is not working. I turn to the TV. I don’t normally have one. It numbs me. I like it. I feel I...
Jul 5, 20222 min read


The Monk and The Pen
A Tibetan monk was asked, “what is the difference between detachment and non-attachment?” He took a pen held it with his fingers and then...
Jun 28, 20222 min read


The Tiger Balm That Came To Tea
This morning, five minutes after putting Tiger Balm on my 10 year-old’s frozen shoulder, I rubbed my eyes. Yes, I had thoroughly washed...
Jun 21, 20221 min read


Shhhh...
Once in a blue moon, or not even as often as that, I go out. I think it’s just for a change of scene, maybe to try some new food (by...
Jun 14, 20222 min read


Seasons and Cycles
So after what seemed like an endless winter, spring has come. I worry whether a sprinkling of frost will stop the daffodils blooming but,...
Jun 8, 20221 min read


To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...
Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory, makes you more attractive....
May 31, 20222 min read


The Winter of My Discontent?
In the seasons of my writing career, this appears to be the winter. I don’t feel like writing. Seeing patients? Yes. Hanging out with the...
May 24, 20222 min read


Granola
When it’s not my hair (which, by the way, is super-duper, fantastically, asymmetrically amazing right now), I have been known to be found...
May 10, 20222 min read


The Final Countdown
I write this sitting on stage, at a huge church auditorium in Kigali. We are 90 minutes before going live. As I sit here, I am not...
May 5, 20221 min read


Drip Drip Drip
It’s 1am. My son has been up the past two nights, vomiting. Or nightmares. Or something. He’s is my bed right now. I’m in the bathroom,...
Apr 20, 20222 min read


The Pearly Gates
As Alexander the Great was dying, he asked to be buried with his hands dangling outside his coffin. His wish was to show everyone, that...
Apr 5, 20221 min read


The Conveyor Belt
I am someone who is always learning. Something here, something there, something that invariably finds its way into my lifestyle (and...
Mar 29, 20222 min read


Japanese Wisdom
“The prime of your life doesn’t come twice.” Read that again. And then fully absorb. Now get on with truly living...
Mar 22, 20221 min read


Lent - Part 2
So I fell off the biscuit wagon. But then I got back on. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” Resilience. Or maybe resilience is not...
Mar 15, 20222 min read


Lent
I was meant to give up biscuits for Lent this year. The plan was solid: I ate plenty of biscuits before, I told everyone I knew and I...
Mar 7, 20222 min read
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