Starving and certain that I would die in my dingy jail cell in Spain, I made a deal with God. I fell to my knees, promising to give up all drugs and criminal activities. I prayed out loud, witnessed only by the urine-soaked walls and huge rats that shared my cage. My desperation was raw and naked. I thought about the Countess....

Hanserd Knollys (1609-91) was a godly pastor/leader and prolific writer among the early Calvinistic Baptists of the seventeenth century. His life and ministry demonstrated a heart for the gospel of Jesus Christ....

Did you hear about the theatrical digs landlady who thought the best way to prepare fillet steak was to boil it? Or the local rep company who put on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves as a Christmas treat for its loyal audience with a cast of eight? Both are featured in The Road to Weatherfield by former Coronation Street scriptwriter Barry Hill....

For some of us, myself included, chronic illness can be a cruel and painful road that we're unfortunately forced to walk alone. For in that place we spend far too many years suffering in total isolation where perceptions, prejudices and ignorance dominate every facet of our mortal being....

As a former sufferer of manic depression, I know only to well that the condition can be a real life sapping and contemptible condition that frequently pushes us into hells that we would rather not go to, for they are, places of total isolation and places of unmitigated despair....

To live with OCD is to connect with the very essence of mortal fragility, where perceptions of this horrendous condition are clouded at worst and where hope always seems to be in some far distant horizon at best....

For some of us, myself included, chronic illness can be a cruel and painful road that we're unfortunately forced to walk alone. For in that place we spend far too many years suffering in total isolation where perceptions, prejudices and ignorance dominate every facet of our mortal being....

Who amongst us truly know who we are? We may think we have a good and robust understanding of who we are, of what makes us tick, our likes and dislikes. You see, we may well be a product of our thoughts at times, where our perceptions and sense of sensibility conflict and/or or agree with the opinions, views and desires of our fellow man....

Apart from birth, taxes and death there is one other more insidious aspect of mortality that very few of us escape from with impunity and that is our interactions with the medical, clinical and surgical world....

Raphael's Legacy presents an evocative appraisal of the false truths we've been sold as a society about chronic conditions such as: Depression, Stress, CFS, ME, Psychological Illness, Fibromyalgia, Hypothyroidism, Toxic Body Syndrome & Lymes Disease....

Chronic suicidal depression is a truly an insidious condition that invades and destroys every aspect of everything that we as mortals, should care to value. It erodes our sense of self, our sense of hope; in fact it erodes the very essence of living a happy, fulfilled and productive life....

For some of us, myself included, chronic illness can be a cruel and painful road that we're unfortunately forced to walk alone. For in that place we spend far too many years suffering in total isolation where perceptions, prejudices and ignorance dominate every facet of our mortal being....

Anxiety is one cruel condition to have, because it can push us all to places that no mortal should every have to go, places of total isolation, places of unmitigated despair and places that simply consume us with unimaginable levels of fear....

Despite what you may have been told and/or currently think about Myalgic Encephalopathy I can assure you that it's not a life sentence and that is a FACT....

Despite what you may have been told and/or currently think about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome I can assure you that it's not a life sentence and that is a FACT....