Why horses can teach us so much about love
She trotted over to me and stood quietly, untied, while my fingers disappeared into the long, winter-thick fur. I scrubbed out a few patches of dried mud, breaking it into powder. I massaged her back, her neck, her mane, her ears. Checked her feet for stones and her long, feathered heels for bugs and skin [...]
A strained bank account is no excuse for a strained relationship
Relationships can be strained and stretched even before the bank account is. A strained bank account can be the tipping point of a relationship. It’s unlikely, if your relationship means more than your fears, that a relationship will end. Is a strained bank account and the fear it creates really worth ending a relationship for? [...]
Stimulating Views on Relationships? What Do YOU Think?
I listened to what I thought was a fascinating interview recently and thought I’d recap the main points here for peeps to consider… I can’t remember whether I ever read the ‘Men are from Mars’… or any of those relationship style books so I don’t know how original the observations I heard in this interview [...]
Do One Thing – Respond
Okay so I’m at my wits end… I am the master of boundaries of setting and enforcing rules. I fire terrible customers at will. I say “no” with ease. I rarely stutter… Except when it comes to people who don’t respond. Okay, so some people are slow to respond because they are busy. Slow [...]
Grateful for School Holidays
Some of you will know that my daughters live with their father and they’re with me every second weekend and half the school holidays. In Scotland our summer holidays start much earlier than they do in the rest of the UK, and I’m now on countdown until they leave having had 4 whole weeks together. [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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