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Dear Whoever-you-are-who-looks-down-on-us-all (if you even exist – but hey, it’s worth a try), I wonder if you could kindly explain a few things to me as, […]

Dear Readers, Apologies for this short term service interruption. Normal service will resume as soon as possible. Kind regards, FWL

Some days are tougher than others. Some are like a roller coaster from start to finish. Sometimes light can be seen at the end of the tunnel and […]

Back in 1943, Abraham Maslow proposed a theory about a hierarchy of needs in his paper entitled “A Theory of Human Motivation” (in Psychologica Review). His theories paralleled many […]

Devon is tucked away in the ‘West Country’ of England and has a rich historical heritage that inspires and delights family historians. Although tourism has brought […]

One of my favourite publications is Russell Ash’s Potty, Fartwell and Knob and, over the last eighteen months of blogging, I have regularly featured some of the more […]

In life, there are many things which are either black or white or sometimes black and white, like pandas and pianos. There really is no ‘gray’ in […]

…. or sometimes the brave. People who bravely go after what they want are more successful than people who try to live safely. Sometimes safe is […]

Duke Robinson, the author of Too Nice for Your Own Good, says that “Saying yes when you need to say no causes burnout. You do yourself and the […]