There’s a giant in my head and it ain’t me. I despise that giant. Every time I fall into the abyss, I have to fight him, he beats me, forever he beats me and then somehow he releases me and I crawl out, wasted but alive. Until the next time. Recently, I read about Leicester Continue Reading
Start Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius
And avoid these 3 awful things I was having sleepless nights, when the jackals circled me, tore and ripped at me through the long, dark hours. When dawn came, I pulled the blankets over my head and lay petrified beneath them. I went on like that for months. Among other things, Marcus Aurelius helped me. Continue Reading
This One Trick, Tricks Death
I learnt it in my job as a personal historian who has conducted hundreds of interviews with people over 80 I was looking for a woman who lived a few miles from a tiny village in the west of Ireland, who was a hundred years of age. It was midday. The small public house at Continue Reading
Loneliness Is Killing Us
Lethal as smoking a pack a day Yikes. Nicholas Kristof, writing in the New York Times kicks the guts with some staggering stats. 1 in 5 adults are lonely 1 in 2 are unmarried 1 in 3 marriages are strained 1 in 4 live alone Dr. Vivek Muthy, US Surgeon General under Obama, tells Nicholas that he, Continue Reading