Preparing the mind...

China One of my oldest friends and my father are both travelling (separately) in China at the moment. On Thursday I got emails from both ...

Back from the grave again Ok, another attempt to revive my blog starts today - what should I write about? How about another notable returns ...

Be the Root! I've been feeling pretty crap for the last few weeks but yesterday something good happened. I came across something really ...

Old friends Guy I knew at university is in the middle of a horrible, really public family tragedy right now. I haven't thought of him in...

Earthquakes We just had one, and it wasn't very big, but it was scarier than usual. Nothing to do with this particular quake , more to ...