Perhaps you remember a time when someone said something about you that made you feel hopeless but has never left your mind. It is funny (and yet not funny) how a few spoken words can stick, and direct many of your future choices.

Going on my trike and also in the wheelchair has taught me a precious lesson. Now, all those people that we look beyond or above have become the eyes that I meet. There is an invisible, often unseen group of people that I now see and share smiles with. I can’t believe it’s taken this…

Have you ever realised that every single person you encounter is a walking story? Beyond the hellos and the blank faces there is a whole life, a wealth of experience- some to be forgotten but others to be learned from.

So the rest of us have to learn how to lose well. I watched the different responses of the Ireland rugby team at the end of their game on Saturday; most were crying, some were on their knees, others were hiding their faces in their rugby shirts. Losing something you had completely invested in and…

Someone encouraged you? If you are still running on the positive words spoken to you years ago, it’s time for something new! I have been so aware of the number of people I know who are downhearted at the moment. Sometimes all it takes is a small bit of encouragement to help them keep going.…

I thought my earring was gone for good but then my daughter found it. Last week I was sitting on the kitchen floor unable to get myself up, but then my neighbour found me and helped me up. Those two events, little and big, involved finding. The joy surrounding both was great!

The helicopters. I’m sure you know the story about the drowning man who refuses offers of help, saying that God would rescue him, not realising that God had sent the boat and helicopter to save him. I wonder how much help we miss out on because we’re looking in the wrong place?

Someone apologetically asked me a very blunt question recently: ‘what is your prognosis?’ Maybe I’m fortunate to know more than most about what lies ahead, but I would rather live in denial than accept it. The word ‘wheelchair’ used to be alien to me until I actually needed it. My mum’s neighbour very kindly gave…

Today is a meh day, just like the picture. I’m dosed with the cold and have spent all morning trying to find an ounce of positivity to give me something to write about.

Yesterday my daughter was looking for wrapping paper to back some of her school books in. She found an old sheet of Peppa Pig. But she did a funny thing; she turned the paper round so the white back of it was on the outside. I held my tongue and realised yet again it’s better…