The picture shows my beloved mother’s reassuring hand guiding a slightly bewildered me down the aircraft steps at Barcelona airport in the early hours of a morning 54 years ago this month.It’s now a week that’s passed since her funeral and I have, at last, found the lines to summarize a lifetime of unequivocal support and love that I received until April 10 of this year:Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye,In every gesture dignity and loveIt is difficult to determine

I find that a recent family tragedy has brought other matters into focus, such that I am at a substantial crossroads in my life. Both at the micro, personal level and at the macro, national level I am faced with carrying on with a descent into despair and madness or effecting a meaningful change to reboot my life. The times they are a-changin', I need to change too.Personal change: the deaths of a loved family member, and of an abusive relationshipYesterday the funeral service was held for my d

This is a short posting but, I hope you'll appreciate, it is very much from the heart.My beloved mother, Grace, passed away at home at 07:30 on Wednesday morning with just me holding her hand and talking to her through a veil of tears as she faded. Now pain-free from the terminal cancer that engulfed her, as ever thinking of others without ever complaining about her condition - she is now at rest.The one constant of unequivocal love and support in my life is gone. I am bereft.Not an easy few mo

After nearly three weeks I‘ve completed the five levels of the Online Entrepreneur Certification training. However, this isn’t being posted to give myself a pat on the back, Rather it is to remind me that training is only useful if what it aimed to do is retained, and dynamically reappraised as, hopefully, it is applied in the field.Lest we forget The Forgetting Curve reminds us that memory is transient - it fades over time. This particularly relates to training, 90% of which can be

It's day 10 of my Wealthy Affiliates' membership. So here's a brief summary with thoughts on progress so far.TrainingThe training continues with WA, and following the tick points on each module certainly does encourage what you (think you may) have learnt into practice. I'm now 61% through my fourth of the five modules.The social media engagement has proven to be the most time-consuming, specifically getting to grips with Pinterest. But I am, I hope, getting there.Typing, typing, and more typin