I heard someone say that “pessimists are never disappointed.” It may be true. But also a little sad. Sometimes it’s good to be disappointed if your expectations are so ridiculously low or high that they’re equating to being judgemental.  And if that means you can be surprised and delighted by finding out something amazing about… Read More Disappointing?

I was looking at a list of words that it was suggested would largely be used in writing if you were intentionally seeking a literary tone. So, not words that would ever be used in everyday communication contexts when you needed to keep your language plain, simple and easily understood – for example, when writing… Read More Sparkle only when needed …

Over a recent holiday, I was playing a new game with the family, based on choosing between absurd dilemmas. Rather surprisingly, I found three dilemmas in the nicely printed cards that for me were bordering on not being dilemmas: “When someone makes a grammar mistake, you give them a corrective slap” “You can’t speak until… Read More Life’s dilemmas …

“It makes me wonder if I’ve been going round with my eyes pasted on.“ Pasted on? Not a phrase I’d previously heard until today with reference to the eyes closed department. But what a wonderfully descriptive idiom for our inability to see what might have been there in plain sight all along. What do your… Read More Open wide …