The funny thing about ambition is how it doesn't always seem to fit the person. My own ambitions, realistic as they probably aren't, include fronting a successful rock band and authoring a published novel, to name just a couple. Sometimes this surprises people—particularly the first one. I suppose I'm a fairl… Read more »
Lately it seems like I spend most of my time waiting for something. And it's no big consolation that I'm not alone. Recently published statistics show, for example, that we spend an average of 653 hours of our lives waiting for buses or trains and no less than seven years waiting just to fall asleep! (It's wo… Read more »
It's a question a friend of mine has been asking a lot as a simple turn of phrase lately, but, as ever, her words have inspired thought.
Wikipedia's online dictionary, the aptly named Wiktionary, defines hope as "the belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen". It proffers the concept… Read more »