What are you afraid might happen to me?

Being asked for an emergency contact always annoys me, it is an interesting reaction. Who do I want someone to call on my behalf if, or when I am in an emergency? I don’t want my friends alarmed on my behalf, and what could they do that I couldn’t? Who...

Negotiating Anxiety

I am revisiting anxiety because, while normal, it can become intolerable. While it may not be possible to describe any particular threat feeling of anxiousness can override our coping mechanisms with a sense of impending danger. Neither our good outcomes or our safety...

Raving man in the city

I saw man in the city today. I see many men in the city but rarely one as extraordinary as this particular man. He was in the heart of the business district, ostensibly one of the locals, wearing smart shoes and a suit. He was attracting a lot of attention because of...

It’s not fair

“It’s so hard” she said “everyone has something in their background and I never know what’s there.” She banged her fists on the table, annoyed at how careful she needed to be. She had been talking to me and stepped on a mine, she...

Leaving the safety of a harbour

“I never feel completely safe.” wrote Anita Darcel Taylor. Safety is a privilege in any given situation, one that many of us take for granted. Others never feel really safe, how would you assure your own safety anyway? First I think of natural threats,...