Love is a many splendid thing, All you need is love, Somebody to love, You've got to hide your love away - so much advice in music and so...

Why show emotion when you can use an emoji!! Why hug when you can give a virtual hug? I'm an emotional conundrum. I often show raw emotio...

I've seen lots of people talking about growth and how like vegetables or bread they have grown and improved as human beings, teachers or w...

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” —Nelson M...

Do we look for it, or does it catch us unaware? A moment that can frame a day, a season. Warmth bringer in cold times A precious element ...

Equinox - the darkness presses in and life slows and grows darker. The village sexton stood silently by the grave; like a crow eyeing car...

Helen was one of a kind. She had worked at the top end department store for over forty years and she had spent her whole career in linger...

I hope that there is very little I should be seeking forgiveness for in life? As Bruce Lee once said, "Mistakes are always forgivable if ...

Musings of a 50+ Teacher The reaction from a close couple of fellow parents was wonderful, loving and heart felt but still I still stay...

#FoldingPaperProject: Cal and Felix (Part IV) The following text is part of the #FoldingPaperProject. The project, set up by Molly (www.m...

A few years back, a resident of Knotty Ash in Liverpool passed away and there was an out pouring of love for the man. Ken Dodd. I was nev...

#DailyWritingChallenge It was, I think, 1982, and I was a 13 year old and at a slightly challenging local secondary modern. Year 3, I th...