Last week I told you I had a dream of setting my feet on the sand. The way I thought I would do it turned out to be too difficult, but I found another way that made my dream come true. Not how I imagined, but still it happened for me. I wonder if you…

If life is getting overwhelming, sometimes it helps to focus on the next step, not whatever lies beyond that. If you’re like me and wake up dreading what the day brings, don’t look too far ahead. Even getting out of bed is a good start.

When you are facing stormy seas in your life, never forget to look out for lifeboats.

It’s Mother’s Day today. I didn’t get a card from either of my two children but that didn’t matter, because they both do more to show their love for me every day than most other children have to. For example, I came into the kitchen for breakfast earlier and my daughter told me to sit…

To give someone a boost. On Saturday, my husband drove us both to see an astounding vista of the Mourne mountains. We sat there watching the sun shine on the snowcapped mountains and our spirits rose. Yesterday, all I had to say to our daughter was ‘Moon Gelato’ and the sun came out with her…

I was reading this morning on BBC news about 11 year old Mohammed Zo’rab from Gaza who goes hunting  for food every day ‘to keep his family alive’. His father is trying to earn a small wage and his mother is sick. It got me thinking about how amazing children can be, and how often…

I was given an amaryillis at Christmas time and still all that is there are four  green leaves and no flower. For the past few weeks I have been faithfully phoning to get a date for my next, now long overdue, infusion. When I think outside of all this minimal frustration, I am aware of…

And smile, smile, smile. I wrote a post a while back decrying the song, ‘pack up your troubles in an old kit bag’ because I think that advice is terrible! Also, the clasp on my ‘ole kit bag’ has a horrible way of springing open when I am trying to keep it shut! This morning…

It is amazing how things that feel so overwhelming can be overcome when you share them with somebody else. There was a huge wave of human connection last week when Sesame Street’s Elmo tweeted the words ‘how are you’ and got millions of responses. People just want to talk to someone about how they are,…

As storm Jocelyn tore through our street last week, I told my husband it was fine to put the recycling bin out to be collected the next morning. But soon all we could hear was the bang of bins and the clatter of rubbish tumbling along the road. I regretted putting the bin out but…