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The basis of many literary works and movies is a main character – a masculine hero or a feminine heroine – who combats adversity and faces up to danger of one kind or another with ingenuity, bravery or strength.  Sometimes they sacrifice their own personal concerns for a greater good and emerge changed, transformed in…

  I have to confess that until I went to college to study naturopathy as a mature age student, I had little clue as to how my body worked, or even what bones, organs or systems it consisted of.  Physiology classes, even though I found them incredibly difficult to understand, proved a continual source of…

I was gifted a wonder filled, enchanting, illustrated book at Christmas – The Boy, the mole, the fox and the Horse. (sic)  The mole is a tad obsessed with cake – “If at first you don’t succeed, have some cake”.  Allow me to share my favourite dialogue: The mole says: “I’ve learned how to be in the…