There are times when certain aspects of life come into more focus. A war. A health scare. A death. In the past month, there has been a...

Back in the height of summer, I got around to cutting some ivy (a creeper plant) from the top of the fence at the back of my garden....

I turned over to a new page in my notebook. At the top of the page, I wrote in capitals “A List Of Things That I Control”.  I sat there...