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  I have been regaling my wife with a daily dose of Shakespeare. I say regale, I think she would say something else. I know Shakespeare can be a little dry, even convoluted to making a point. But in these ancient writings, it still carries as...

  The things that make me different are the things that make me, me – Piglet. I had to take my wife, Sam, to visit one of her clients who needed some artistic coaching. When we arrived at the clients house. They lived in this beautiful...

The Loan Wolf - How social anxiety behaves like double    What seems like a lifetime, I have struggled with anxiety. It’s a thing I hide well. On the face of things, I am an assertive man who gets what they want. I have learnt from a young age...

Princess Caraboo   As a writer, your travels through the reams of literature takes you on a fantastic journey. Some stories stick in your mind while we consign others to the cerebral waste bin. I recently stumbled across a story so...

Whispered Promises: Love's Resilience Amidst the Storm   Once upon a time, in a world tinged with both joy and sorrow, destiny brought me face to face with a remarkable man. He was not just a patient; he was a living testament to a love story...

by Jon Biddle   If you haven’t been watching the news recently, Russia has invaded Ukrainian, which has been on the cards for around six years. The hors d’oeures for this was the occupation of Crimea in 2014. Let’s not split hairs here, let’s...

by Jon Biddle   I recently watched the Louis Theroux BBC program on Forbidden America while reading a book about the Sackler family and the OxyContin prescription disaster called Empire of Pain written by Patrick Radden Keefe. Spawning an...

by Jon Biddle   They safe moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do as an adult. In my younger years with my wife and children, we moved often, not really finding our groove. Until the house we have been living in for nearly...

by Jon Biddle   It has dogged humans with mental health through time immemorial. We just saw it differently than we do today. Mental health is a scatter gun label for something which is a little more dynamic than what people appreciate. Stick...

by Jon Biddle     Being self-published is something just more than writing. I have said this so many times, the writing side of things is the easy bit and the business side of things can become very consuming. How long you take to...

by Jon Biddle    I work a full-time job as a writer, and some folks rock their hips and place a hand on their chest, open mouthed, demonstrating a level of confusion, ‘don’t you work as a medical professional?’ I guess while stood there...

by Jon Biddle    Humanity is incredibly creative and I marvel and the different ways we achieve things in our lives. It’s a natural gift we possess and we use it in parenting, education, lifestyle. Creativity isn’t always about painting a...

by Jon BiddleI know what I have to do as I sit and watch the cursor flash mercilessly at me, like a constant reminder that I am not writing. I wish it did something else, like somersaults or sit back and read the paper. But no, the cursor blinks...

by Jon BiddleSo Saturday morning around 4pm, I woke with a dream of a lizard dropping onto my shoulder - One of my greatest fears. I woke in the haze of sleep. I struggled to make sense of what was going on, my heart racing. In fact, it was pumping...

by Jon BiddleMy name is Jon Biddle, and I overeat, binge eat to excess and capacity. I feel powerless in my addiction and want to die because of it. This is what the twelve steps or twelve traditions demand from me and only when I realise I am...

by Jon Biddle I got an email from a publisher the other day. They wanted to know some details and maybe think about a deal.   Publishers call you asking you for your details with a tempting deal, it’s like getting an email from Prince Mfon from...

by Jon Biddle   I can throw around such definitions of hyper-reacting to anything and everything that happens to me. Then something interesting happens. All the loftiest sounding definitions get me thinking about what my personal definition...

by Jon BiddleWhy is it we can roll out of bed on any day and be in a joyous state? We see sunlight even on the grayest of days. Everything in our tiny world is harmonious to the frequency of life. And yet, some days, thankfully, not too many these...

by Jon BiddleWhenever we make a mistake, we end up making more mistakes because we refuse to acknowledge the mistake in the first place.  What’s worse is we are hardly ever honest with ourselves about the mistake. We need to consistently examine...

by Jon BiddleWriting has been what I have known forever and loved, yet I wasted a lot of years not writing - thanks to my own inner critic.   If I were thinking honestly, writing chose me, as most people choose what they know what’s best for them....