When I am teaching, as I have been recently over a busy two weeks in Beijing, a question I am asked often serves as a reminder of some impor...

I was with a Wood friend today and after a few hours in her company I realised that I wanted to ask her an odd question, which was, “Do yo...

One way of viewing the qualities of the elements is to regard them as aspects of ourselves which we can choose to use wisely or unwisely.   ...

Many things have happened during my years of practice which still make me laugh at myself, none more so than my attempts to give my patients...

Since my formative years coincided with the birth of the NHS and free medical care for all, I feel deep in my bones that at some level al...

I am reading a fascinating book by Adam Alter:   Irresistible: Why we can’t stop checking, scrolling, clicking and watching , about our obs...

I have just passed a lovely sign on the outside of the Wellcome Collection in the Marylebone Road here in London .   Appropriately for its n...

I am still reeling from the result of the referendum.   And I don’t agree with many people’s passive acceptance that “Brexit means Brexit”. ...

I have written before about a very interesting old Viennese musician and astrologer I knew many years ago called Dr Oskar Adler.   I rememb...

Oh, this wretched referendum being forced on this country against our will!   Who wants a referendum except those who want us to get out of ...

It is strange to become aware of social change happening before my eyes as happened today.   I was reading an excellent book about Shakespe...

I am reading a rather delightful book I picked up by chance in the library.   It is the diary by somebody called Kathleen Hey who was a shop...

Readers of this blog know that I enjoy going to coffee houses and doing my writing and my reading over coffee.   Often, too, I don’t finish ...

I am watching with fear as the world, which often seems never to learn from its past, hovers yet again on the brink of another financial pre...

As I get older, leaving many years trailing behind me, I am aware that nostalgia for the past creeps up on me more frequently than it used t...

I have just held a very heart-warming book launch for my new book On being a Five Element Acupuncturist , which has just been published.  ...

I love reading of people who, often to their own surprise, have found themselves spurred on to write, as though they have at some point in t...

I am frightened of modern technology and the speed with which it changes.   In the old days hardly had I got used to the old VHS tapes when ...

I read in the newspaper this weekend the story of somebody called Freda Kelly who had been secretary to the Beatles for many years and has...

My readers may have noticed that it has been quite a time since I posted my last blog here.   This was unfortunately forced upon me by an ...