I met up with a friend at the weekend who told me that she can drop off to sleep just like. She snapped her fingers to prove her point. irritating! At which point, the envy I felt was equivalent to a middle aged man going through the midlife crisis who is standing at a bus …
Quotes to Inspire Your Morning Routine
Alarm clock goes off at 5am. I turn it off. Reset it for 6am. It goes off. I turn it off. I reset the alarm for 7am. It goes off for the third time. I don’t bother resetting it this time and roll out of bed at 7.30am. Instantly, I feel like a failure. The …
It Isn’t Selfish To Look After Yourself, Especially In Midlife
I grew up believing that taking care of everybody else was what I was supposed to do. It took me a long time to understand that I had a life of my own and that I didn’t have to fix it for everybody else, and that it was okay for me to receive care… ‘Sharon …
Rediscovering the Beat: My Journey to a Music Festival at Age 60
What’s not to like when a baby boomer gets to listen and watch, LIVE, their favourite bands from the 70s and 80s! I lived that weekend in early September at The Soultown Festival. In fact, to quote modern word phrases, I was ‘vibing’ and ‘throwing shade’. Life has a way of taking us down different …
Charles Darwin Discovered the Powers of Rest on his “Thinking Path”
Do you find it incredibly hard to ‘slow down’ or shift into the slow lane at the best of times? If my circle of midlife friends are anything to go by we are charging all over the place. They have oodles of energy but has the concept of rest been forgotten? Most people can only …