What would you like written on your tombstone?

Who’s worse overseas, Americans (think guy in peak cap outside Eiffel Tower asking plaintively ‘How come no one in this …

Existential terror before breakfast…

This morning, I wake to pale sunlight and the gossip of fifteen parrots in the paddock outside my window. An …

Don’t worry about missing the life train, there’ll be another one along in a minute

A letter to my children… It’s ok to spend your time grouching and moaning about the way things have worked …

Rich beyond my wildest dreams..

Whenever I hear someone saying they’re glad they had a disabled kid, or got breast cancer, I think, really?  So …

How to visit heaven..without actually dying

If you saw a way to escape from the petty shit of life, would you take it? One that didn’t …

Strange encounters

An old woman sits on the floor in a foetal position, in a side-corridor of a public building.  In her …

Wanna see yourself as others see you?

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us (Burns, a while ago) No …

Rose and the Philosopher’s Chocolate: When Perversion becomes Obsession

Yes, I’m confessing to a perverted lust.  It’s called Thinking About Pointless Stuff.  But even worse, once I get on …

Am I happy, what is happiness anyway, and how the hell do I know?

My lovely blog friend Iamnotshe wants to know, am I happy, what is happiness anyway, and how the hell do …

Don’t bother seizing the day, there’ll be another ten billion of them

If each of us had a billion years to hang around in, there would be NO blogs exhorting us to …