Helen Baker runs Helen Baker Design and she is passionate about using Craftivism as a way of promoting non-aggressive activism. Her mini pants… Read more

There are certain signs when illness or old age has tipped into a preparation for death. The dying may feel… Read more

Liz Rothschild is a life and death celebrant, writer and performer.  She started Westmill Woodland Burial Ground in 2000. It is located on a… Read more

I woke up this morning feeling as grey as the day. I’m often like this when I’ve come back from… Read more

I feel another soapbox rant coming on.  On the train to London I read a left-behind Daily Mail.  ‘Fight the… Read more

It’s Professor Brian Cox who dunnit for me, in the sitting room, with his BBC series, The Wonders of the… Read more

Psychic work and mediumship are regarded with such suspicion and disrespect in our western culture. I find this really sad… Read more

This series of workshops has been co-created by GP Dr Jo Withers. I ran a pop-up death cafe with Jo… Read more

I have been thinking a lot about hubris recently, sparked off by the global panic surrounding Coronavirus. Hubris comes from the… Read more

I am thoroughly fed up with the negative news and social media agendas that are bombarding us from all directions… Read more

Well, here we are at the start of 2012. Normally I wouldn’t hesitate in wishing everyone a Happy New Year. … Read more

The Shropshire Canal, affectionately called the Shroppie, has turned into one of the highlights of the journey so far. Not… Read more

An Advance Directive (living will) stipulates, for example, whether you want to be resuscitated or should you become seriously ill, what… Read more

It is impossible to predict when the moment death will actually happen. People can hover between life and death for… Read more

A menopausal friend called me this week to talk through something that had upset her. Well, ‘talk through’ isn’t quite… Read more

I have just returned for a week in Hong Kong, which included a weekend in Guangzhou – third largest, and… Read more

Teaching English to Tibetan monks is one thing, but to see the Dalai Lama in person is quite another. From… Read more