“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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

So after what seemed like an endless winter, spring has come. I worry whether a sprinkling of frost will stop the daffodils blooming but,...

Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer. It enhances your memory, makes you more attractive....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

I am someone who is always learning. Something here, something there, something that invariably finds its way into my lifestyle (and...

“The prime of your life doesn’t come twice.” Read that again. And then fully absorb. Now get on with truly living...

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...

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...