We often talk of 'lightbulb' moments or 'seeing' an answer to a problem; sometimes, that seeing comes gradually (a little like how energy saving bulbs take time to warm up and let the full light shine through them) and sometimes suddenly. If we have very little...

December has always been a busy month in my family for birthdays. My uncle’s birthday was 19th December; my mother’s 23rd December and my father’s 24th December. When my son and daughter-in-law announced their pregnancy with a due date in December, I felt as though...

  It might seem odd to be talking about life after death as we draw closer to Christmas, the time when we celebrate new life and birth, but the truth remains for humans that death is the one certain thing about life. We may not know when death will come, but we...