Piling up in supermarkets and online stores, chocolate eggs are one of the most visible cues that Easter is around the corner. Stacked up in all their chocolatey glory, in all sorts of flavours, colours and sizes, Easter eggs have...

“Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the beauteous land.” – Julia Carney. In the short run, it’s often hard to see the impact of repeatedly performing an action. However, cued by the opening lines above, taking...

 “In any argument, a wife has the last word. Anything the husband says after that last word is the beginning of a new argument.” “If a man opens the car door for his wife, you can be sure of one thing — either the car is new, or the wife is.”...

I imagine there are veteran parents out there who do not only ‘talk the talk’ but have excelled at ‘walking the walk’ for much longer than I, and therefore may be better placed to speak authoritatively about parenting. As one in the trenches of...

The story is often told of four people – Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about...