Author: Alastair Johnston (149)

I have no friends

I have no friends. So you know I don't like Facebook. Pretty regularly I rail against the behemoth. It's because I have no friends. I...

Headspace

As I came back to focusing on the room around me, my messy desk and computer to the right, the traffic crawling along outside and...

Start Here

Thanks for stopping by my website and blog. My name is Alastair Johnston and I'm a forty something British bloke who writes about:- If any...

I am FOR being a Dad

This is a response to Gwen Bell's recent FOR Kid-Free Living post. You might want to read it first and then come back here to...

Negative Visualisation

Think about somebody you love. Somebody really close to you. Spouse, parent, child, friend. Picture them dead. Gone. Away. Feel the grief. Really feel it....

How to write badly

This post is probably a bad one. As you read it months or years into the future, you'll see just how amateurish it was. How...

Facebook free

I’m aware that some of the people who I want to remain in contact with, use Facebook as the de-facto method of keeping in touch....

Why I don't want a career

The more I think about it, the more I realise that I actually don’t want a career. I never have. My job does not define...

About

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for...

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