This is an extraordinary story.

It's imnportant.

On friendships.

Indeed. Those days are gone, alas.

You can do it!

On retiring from MMA.

No, more like a high-pitch but very soft buzz.

Best: Oslo & Zurich, followed by Aalborg, Vilnius and - Belfast!

Why you should not do a Ph D.

Anne-Marie Slaughter looks at reactions to her famous article.

Children in Brussels.

A simple self-help technique.

Encounter with a carjacker in Karachi.

Tom Shakespeare on the nonsense poet and landscape artist who also had epilepsy.

Can you delay gratification?

"I. AM. THE. TRAGEDY. MODEL. OF. DISABILITY", says Peter. I repeat the words after him to make sure that I've followed his meaning. He nods, I smile. Concentrate. The moving finger writes: "BUT. YOU. ARE. THE. COMEDY. MODEL."

"As I may, inadvertently and indirectly, bear some responsibility for the extrapolation from authentic text to familiar paraphrase, I would like to confess and set the record straight. "

parenting a dying child.

Very sad story, sounds like a fascinating documentary.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

"...stress created by incivility can be so intense that, at the end of the day, it is taken home."

Wise advice from Frankie.

"Nursery is run for working parents: open 8-6, three meals a day provided, flexible arrival and departure time, and one itemised monthly bill. School is very different: closed 14 weeks of the year, and finishing around 3pm the other 38."

Young love in New Jersey in the 1960s.

'Victor was surprisingly pissed that I’d “wasted money” on an enormous chicken, because apparently he couldn’t appreciate the hysterical value of a 5 foot chicken ringing the doorbell.  Then I said, “Well, at least it’s not towels” and apparently that was the wrong thing to say because that’s when Victor screamed and stormed off, but I knew h…

On reading your ex-husband's memoir: "I believe the description of himself, me, and of our marriage, to be a fiction. It is a pity he has neither the good taste, nor the talent, to present it as such."

The Ten Commandments of the late George Ross (I summarise): 1.- Sapere aude – Dare to know.  2.- Know thyself. 3.- Universalize your actions. 4.- Be kind and compassionate, and be involved. 5.- Take very seriously your duty towards others, but do not take yourself too seriously. 6.- Remember that all human opinions, values, tenets and beliefs are …

Curing procrastination.

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