Honestly, Dear Reader.  If I've discovered anything in the past 63 years, it's that I can choose how I'm going to react to what life throws at me.  I have the power of choice over how I feel about things.  Or at least some power of choice anyhow.

And Happiness is a choice - it isn't dependent upon us having the 'newest' or 'latest' or ' ( Read more... )

They're at it again.  Nibbling away at the Sanctity of Life.  Tomorrow the House of Lords will be debating an Assisted Dying Bill proposing to allow people who are suffering to commit suicide, with help if necessary, with no comeback against the assister.  Currently assisting suicide carries a penalty of up to fourteen years in prison, though I've ( Read more... )

Look on the Bright Side - Roller Coasters

We've all met them, the kind of people who are "Fine!  Wonderful!  On top of the World!" one minute & then "Utterly Depressed!"  "I've screwed up my entire life!"  "Suicidal!" the next.  OK, sometimes it really is that bad.  Most of the time it isn't.  There's a name for that kind of mood swing - Manic ( Read more... )