It’s normal to take our lives for granted. Easy to cozy up in front of the TV and watch something – anything – to check out from ‘real life’ for 132 minutes. We’re distraction junkies.  ...

Hi there, I want to share an absolutely marvelous 8-minute film called On Knowing Happiness. It comes from Nic Askew’s Soul Biography series. When I posted it on Facebook, years ago now, the...

  Your relationship with time iswell, it’s your primary relationship. Yup, it’s more important than the ones you have with friends, your partner (if you have one), your family, your cat! You...

  What if the most exciting, fulfilling part of your life is still ahead of you? There’s a story society loves to tellthat by the time you hit midlife in your 50’s, life should be predictable...

I don’t have an easy explanation for what’s happening, only that I want to get to know the stranger in me again...

  Here’s how it all began One day, about a year after my 23-year-old daughter died, I was hiking on a snowy mountain path that I’d never taken before. I got completely lost and came close to a...

    What struck me most powerfully when I got to the Taj Mahal was that I made it passed security with my daughter’s ashes in my bag. “Take nothing but a camera,” said Pravar, our Intrepid...

  I wish I knew how to create graphs and charts to make things eye-catching, but I don’t. With the arrival of a New Year and writing about my travels, I figured compiling some facts and figures...

“Hey, I’m back,” she cries, spread-eagled. “Did you miss me?” For two years now I’ve been wedged in a crate wondering if she’d ever return. She, on the other hand, has been gallivanting around the...