A Thinking Man

There was a pile of dog poo on the pavement.
As they walked to work, four men trod in it and messed up their shoes.
The first man felt very sad. He looked at the mess and smelled the smell and said to himself: “You know, this just about sums me up. This always happens [...]

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I was surprised by how much it affected me.
The key must have jumped ship on Thursday lunchtime. I locked the office door, walked to my car, and drove home to my afternoon job. But somehow the master-key to the building must have slipped out of my pocket as I got in the car [...]

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Perhaps it’s my age. I find myself getting very angry at things these days. Years ago I would have rebuked myself for that and told myself that anger was wrong. Now I just see it as a healthy emotion in response to injustice and threat.
Although I first read about this story several [...]

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I am sure that if you asked a group of respectable people if they got angry, many of them would deny that they did.  Although working class males are allowed to be angry, middle class males tend to want to avoid it, and it is certainly an emotion that society frowns on in women.
Despite this denial, anger [...]

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For various personal and professional reasons I have been thinking and reading a lot about anger this month.  I have been reminded that anger has many faces, and that it doesn’t always announce its arrival with complete honesty.  It knows a trick or two and is a master of disguise.
A lot of people don’t like [...]

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A friend of mine was attacked last week. She, a 24 year old woman, was standing in the driveway in front of her house in the afternoon chatting to a neighbour. A 55 year old disabled woman from across the square in a middle-class suburb, came towards her shouting abuse, then grabbed hold [...]

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