I’d Like to be That Interesting

What’s something most people don’t know about you? Me trying to think of something mysterious about me! That’s made my brain hurt. I’m pretty much an open book. When the term WYSIWYG (wizzywig) first appeared in computing I realised it applied equally to me. For those who don’t remember the switch, it meant that youContinueContinue reading “I’d Like to be That Interesting”

Never Mind

When I realised as a child That I was always going to be wrong I didn’t think ‘never mind’ I just felt hurt When I wasn’t allowed to go to university And those hopes and dreams were stopped I didn’t think it then either I just felt lost Through decades of hurts That never neededContinueContinue reading “Never Mind”

On Society: The Other-hood of Man

One of the problems with our society is that we’re taught to see people as ‘other’. When in fact if you could look below the skin you would see exactly the same components. Over the centuries we have divided ourselves by race, religion, colour, creed, and now gender. These divisions are so many centuries oldContinueContinue reading “On Society: The Other-hood of Man”

How to Love Yourself

People trot out that old chestnut, ‘you should love yourself more’, then generally walk away leaving you to get on with it, possibly because in truth they have no real idea how to put those words into action. I do. I had to learn. First by rebuilding my character to bring out the real me.ContinueContinue reading “How to Love Yourself”

When They Become Good Friends

What makes a good neighbor? Yes I used to watch it! Seriously though, if you get on well with your neighbours you’re very lucky, especially in the indoor society, repel all borders, parts of the UK. We’ve not been so lucky since we left London, although that may well have changed. When we first movedContinueContinue reading “When They Become Good Friends”

On Society

For most of my life I’ve had a political mind, and yet I don’t want to go into politics. More and more lately I’ve felt that as a society we need to look at ourselves. To consider how our behaviour, beliefs, and prejudices, affect the world that we’re creating that the children of the futureContinueContinue reading “On Society”