5 depression-defeating disciplines
When I wrote Through the Dark Woods, I thought I was done with depression. A decade on and I have…
Jo’s Blog
Lazy Storytelling
Have you ever seen those story books for children learning to read where on the left page they have several…
Darkness into light
Hitting the upload button on my last blog post felt like sending a tear-stained scribble of an SOS in a…
Postcard from the Edge
I write and speak openly about depression for a few reasons; I want to play my part in combatting stigma,…
The view from the pit
Things have been quiet around here for a while. I’ve just logged on and seen my last post was nearly…
One piece of a puzzle
Things in life don’t always fit together. It can be a mess of broken and missing bits, bits that look…
The Inner Ring
In Dialogue with C. S. Lewis I’m stinging with a thousand paper cuts today- a thousand tiny slights, some real,…
Hide and seek
I was reading the end of John’s gospel the other morning and something struck me in a way it hadn’t…
Learning from how we don’t study Austen
The Jane Austen Study Read “Pride and Prejudice”, chapter 14, 1st half of 4th paragraph. “Her indifferent state of health…
The difference between sympathy and empathy
A friend came up to me in that milling around bit after church when you half catch up with lots…