There are so many things a person can do if they put their minds to it. Yet so often people stop themselves short of actually doing what they want to try out because they lack the confidence that it takes to undertake a new project or possibility. The reason for this, I find, is that […]
Testosterone
I thought it was just that I was depressed after the passing of my wife. Then I thought that I just had a flu bug or something. Then I started noticing that overall my energy was bottoming out. Then I began to worry that I perhaps had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Now I know differently. Until […]
“Toxic Masculinity”
This is not going to be what you think it will be about. Not entirely anyway. You see, I do indeed recognise that there is a thing called “toxic masculinity”. But I also recognise that there is a thing called “toxic femininity”. Both are equally destructive. Recently I had a mother and teenage son in […]
Ink
Yesterday I was having lunch with a good friend. She was telling me that she had shown her mother a photo she had taken of me a while back. Her mother immediately got frightened and judgmental because of the tattoos that were on my forearms. Imagine how she would have responded had she seen all […]
Empathic vs Annoying
Being an empath myself, I totally get when one is gifted and sensitive. We do tend to see things beyond what others see, we are aware of things that are deeper in the psyche of those around us. And we do tend to be called crazy a lot because we do respond to what we […]