As of today, I’m 46,564 words into the first draft of my third book ‘A Foolish Escape’. Part of my writing process is to go back over old journal entries and blog posts. This morning I came across this one, dated 20th November 2015. I wrote it aboard my boat in Marina de Lagos on the Portuguese Algarve. It was

Have you seen either of these abbreviations in any of your online reading lately? TL;NR or TLDR Personally, I’ve been seeing them more frequently. I first came across TL;DR at the bottom of an interesting article a few months back. I had to look it up because I had no idea what it meant. For those that don’t know, they

‘Life is change’. Heraclitus of Ephesus, the Greek philosopher said that some 2,500 years ago. It’s impossible to argue with the statement. We all live, and we all experience change. Every single day. We change. Other people change. The whole world changes. The only variable is how that change affects us. Directly or indirectly, dramatically or hardly at all. Change