Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon
Princess Diana, a Nurse and a Red Balloon This year would have been Princess Diana’s sixtieth birthday. I met her briefly. This is a story of the...
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Your Ego (who you think you are) Vs. Your True Essence (who you really are)
Throughout my life my ‘inner essence’ has often guided my work and career choices. It enabled me to make life changing decisions based...
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What is your calling?
What is your calling? It was the end of British summertime 1994. I had become a child of God earlier that same year – Easter. Six months later I...
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Carpe Diem and Your Inner Voice
My memoirs make many references to my ‘inner voice’ which has guided me throughout my life. Some would say this is our intuition or...
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The tao of the ‘Nightingale’
The nightingale has totemic significance for me. Not only am I drawn to the symbolism of this bird of love and loss, it is also the name of the...
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Finding solace and beauty through music (Part 1)
Throughout my book ‘The Grace of a Nightingale’ you will discover how music has enabled me to find solace, beauty, love and hope...
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Writing my story – knowing myself
From the distant ruins of my past there are both unwelcome and inspirational memories which have been revisited in order to write these memoirs...
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Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #2
“ If experience is the food of learning, then reflection is the digestive process………to benefit from experience, it is essential to make something...
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Reflecting on Your Everyday Experience #1
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver This meditation is taken from my memoir ‘The Grace of...
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Thoughts from my editor
It was back in October 2016 that I contacted Helen to ask whether she would be interested in editing my memoir. This is what she says about...
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Designing the book cover
Both the title ’The Grace of a Nightingale’ and the cover design have various connotations – nature, nursing, freedom, spirituality (the...
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