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Wouldn't it be fairly normal to plan to follow on with your chosen career path into retirement? I think so. Maybe a few years before 67 or 68 (as it will be for my age group) people might slow down a little by possibly reducing hours or going into a less demanding role. In my case, teaching in a state secondary school is more like something I regularly feel I cannot bear much longer and I am in my forties. Despite my absolute and totally unfaltering efforts, I still feel I

My son told me his neck hurt and he sat down in front of me on the sofa to let me massage it after I offered. I did a little up and down the neck and then went onto the shoulders but he said it was hurting him even though pretty light. I asked if he wanted healing instead and he agreed. I started and he said he liked it so I continued and kind of zoned out like I usually do. My mind wandered to a time when I had asked for healing at a Christian spiritualist church I was g

So I find myself in the middle of a mental health crisis and want to try to describe the feelings. This in the hope that reading about my experience can help someone better identify or even put into words what they are feeling if they are struggling to. It may also give a few people that feeling that someone else feels similarly to them to maybe make them feel less freaked out and take a bit of the stigma out of these mental health blips a little. For background, I have had t

Halloween is in some ways my favourite holiday. I like the theatrical dressing up mostly but also the fact it doesn't go on for ages and require a lot of commitment like a UK Christmas can with the overeating and drinking and the conundrum of who you want to see and when/how versus who you 'have' to see and when/how. Essentially it's an 'opt-in or opt-out' situation and I like that about it. After 8 years of living abroad and not being able to get a pumpkin mostly so making

A professor of economics in the USA who is about to receive a Nobel peace prize was talking about AI on the radio this morning. He was likening the recent explosion around the usage of AI to historical situations with technical developments like the discovery and usage of electricity and also computers. He said that although AI will replace some of the skills that some people have, it will also enhance the capabilities of others. He suggested that people would be advised to

I heard a professor say this morning on the radio that Nigel Farage's niche of voters is the same people who voted 'leave' in Brexit. In...

So, all I set out to do was to create something out of stones from the beach as I was going to be at my husband's summer house in Greece...

Sitting patiently (because it was so unusual for him to mix) while my pre-teen played football with some boys in the park, I saw this...

I have had a cupboard full of partially-filled scrapbooks, poorly organised photos and many memory miscellanies from when both children...

Over the last year or two I have dabbled a bit with ancestry.com and found an interesting character called Belinda but more about her...

Without going into the legitimacy of reincarnation at present, I want to get down what I have 'learnt' about what my soul has been up to...

I heard on the radio on the way to work yesterday that they are opening places for 'safer drug consumption' in Glasgow. These are going...

Boundaries. Maybe not what you were expecting it to be. A word that is thrown around these days as something that we should have,...

So this week saw me in full 'professional conversation mode' for nearly two hours, without so much as a wee-wee break. It's basically...

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