At the end of 2011, my personal income was 20% what it was at the beginning of 2011. I know a few people who run their own businesses and really struggled last year, and we all know people who are employed by others and worry for their jobs and therefore their income, but for me, [...]

I got an email from a blog reader telling me I hadn’t written in a week and she was missing it, so here I am, on an Air France flight to the UK, with the first spare time I’ve had since the drive back from Oshika. (And let me just say how the loos on [...]

Embrace Transition asked its writers to come up 350 words about what they leave behind in 2011, and what they carry forward into 2012. Here are mine …… 2011 was the year when practically every area of my life got a bloody good shake-up. The events of March 11th made look at things in my [...]

2011 was the year where my life’s Control-Alt-Delete button was hit. And I didn’t even know I needed rebooting. But whether I liked it or not, I found most areas of my life got a bloody good shake up — sometimes by circumstance and sometimes by choice — and I ended the year feeling more [...]