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Assholes
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes....
Jun 16, 20202 min read


Bananas
As lockdown eases and the clinic has gotten busier, I’d like to share a few of the statements that I heard this week: “I’m fed up of...
Jun 10, 20202 min read


Bubble Baths
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...
May 26, 20203 min read


Keynesian Logic
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),...
May 19, 20202 min read


Hail to the Mouse!
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...
May 5, 20202 min read


The Golden Nugget
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...
Feb 18, 20202 min read


The Genie
Be realistic. Plan for a miracle. - Osho Imagine you could have anything you wanted. Imagine you had a genie. The genie is willing...
Jan 7, 20202 min read


Flames
The definition of success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill I like this guy. He seems...
Dec 31, 20192 min read


Dirty Little Secrets
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...
Dec 10, 20192 min read


Are you Selfish?
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...
Dec 2, 20192 min read


Headstands and Humility
“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...
Nov 26, 20192 min read


Falling in Love - Part 2
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,...
Nov 5, 20192 min read


Falling in Love
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...
Oct 29, 20192 min read


Ahoy The Digital Detox
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....
Sep 24, 20192 min read


Meringue Overboard
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...
Sep 17, 20192 min read


A New World
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...
Sep 10, 20192 min read


Mullets and Mohawks
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...
Aug 20, 20193 min read


Pumba
Travel to the African savannah and, among the famed lions, elephants and cape buffalo, you will soon encounter the humble warthog. When a...
Aug 6, 20192 min read


The Lifeboat
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...
Jul 23, 20192 min read


Ketchup
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...
Jun 29, 20192 min read
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