A Path Less Trodden

I'm reading Steve Jobs biography at the moment and although he was a very complex and sometimes difficult character there is a section of the book that deals with the romantic relationships that he enjoyed. He claimed to love two woman in his...

Some say happiness is a choice. Clearly it isn't. Not if you're clinically depressed, not if you're a child that's starving, not if you've suffered a bereavement. Luckily none of these apply to me, so happiness is perhaps a choice for me. It's...

'Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us' (Hal Borland) I came across this quote in a card that I received a few years ago, that I've kept for personal reasons. At the...

They say you should never go back. I know that this truism probably relates to relationships, but I think the same can be said of places too, especially if you revisit them with high expectations. Well that's exactly what I did for the last 10...

At times, like most I guess,  I question whether my life has any real meaning or purpose. I get up, go to work, come home, pursue some vicarious pleasure then go to bed, only to repeat it all the next day. Sure I earn money, more than enough to...