I got home today with a splitting headache*. The kids were with their father, so this was the perfect time to take a bath. The problem...

For the last four months, I have been growing my hair. Its natural growth rate is slower than a snail’s (if a snail had hair, obviously),...

There’s a popular misconception that the Chinese word for crisis is the same as opportunity. But even if it is not, today I’d like to...

As I have alluded to once before, I am an avid journaller. I find that by regularly recording my stream of thoughts (and boy, there are...

Be realistic. Plan for a miracle. - Osho Imagine you could have anything you wanted. Imagine you had a genie. The genie is willing...

The definition of success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill I like this guy. He seems...

I have a dirty little secret. It’s so “dirty” that I don’t even want to write about it. Hell, I don’t even want to accept it, and yet, I...

Selfish. It’s such a loaded word. And it’s not one you want to be called. But what I have realised, is that when someone calls you...

“Can I help you with that?” “No! I can do it myself. I don’t need any help!” This is an interaction between myself and my 7 year-old...

What most people don’t know about me is that I like to fall in love. I fall in love easily. It could be a man, a food, a new yoga style,...

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself you have built against it. - Rumi...

Day 1/7 I tell myself this is a good thing. Somewhere, somehow, I’ve become one of those people who check their phone every 12 seconds....

Today, as I disembark the European cruise*, I contemplate the two observations I’ve made over the past week: 1. There are a lot of...

My grandfather turns 90 on Sunday and, to celebrate, we are on a family cruise in Europe for the week. As our ship pulled out of...

I write today’s blog post, as I‘m reeling from a bad haircut. Yes, I do realise this is a clearly a very first-world problem – a...

Travel to the African savannah and, among the famed lions, elephants and cape buffalo, you will soon encounter the humble warthog. When a...

I have talked about not-feeling in this blog before. It’s the perfect way to keeping going, to carry on, when everything is threatening...

By nature, I am an indecisive person. So, for many years, to remedy this, I’d either indirectly get people to make decisions for me (and...

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. - Rumi, 13th century Persian Poet I had initially...

My gardener is now on Whatsapp* and as I messaged him, I happened to see his status: misogynist man. Before I became outraged, I thought...