As the sun reappeared from behind another dark cloud, I was reminded that hard times don’t last forever. I have lost count of the number of people going through darkness at the moment. The world is filled with war, starvation, floods, earthquakes, political corruption, injustice, abuse, exploitation and abandonment of the weakest. Now, more than…

Do things sometimes happen for a welcome reason?

And start something new.

How capable you or your children are when changes come. When I am going over all the things racing round my head, I am always filled with anxiety and trepidation. The questions are ‘will they manage all of this?’ or ‘will I be able to survive?’ It hit me yesterday that I was looking at…

Closer than you think. I have been facing two challenges about home recently. My son is going away to study medicine in Aberdeen next month and we are in the process of moving house. We were in IKEA earlier today getting some of the essentials for him. Thinking about bedding and cutlery does not say…

But don’t forget to celebrate the wins!

I often write about my dislike of change, but maybe we need to see change as a chance to embrace a fresh start, to welcome new beginnings. Two days ago I had the precious chance to hold my year old nephew. That was when I started to be thankful for change, the chance to start…

There is no person on this earth who does not have their own story. Some don’t have the power to speak for themselves, many don’t think their experience is worth talking about, few believe that they have anything that deserves to be noticed.

Do the things that you thought were impossible. Last week I was on Marble Hill beach in Donegal for the first time in years. I shook off the memory of walking easily along the shore and tried to be thankful that I was there again, by a different way. What I had not thought of…