Over Christmas, I played a gloriously silly game with my family where we had to guess the words or phrase on a card just from looking at an image trying to convey their meaning. It was an innocent, funny family moment, and we each had our own talents and preferences that shone through and enabled us… Read More Can you do nothing?
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” Michel de Montaigne
I had a yearning the other day to strip things back to basics, to return to simple, to enjoy the pleasures in life that I might be taking for granted. What prompted it? A little girl sitting on her dad’s knee on the bus into town – getting excited at the prospect of being able… Read More Simple pleasures . . .
“Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you’re standing outside the fire.” Garth Brooks, 1993
humblebrag ˈhʌmb(ə)lbrag/ informal noun 1. an ostensibly modest or self-deprecating statement whose actual purpose is to draw attention to something of which one is proud. What a wonderful word!
Happy Christmas to you! And thank you for reading in 2016.
“I’ll never be like my mother, sadly. But she loved me so much that perhaps I can reflect a shimmer of that love back to the world. I can’t take any credit for it myself, but how wonderful if I could pass on a pale reflection of someone else’s goodness.” Anne Atkins BBC Radio 4,… Read More Aspiring to . . .
I have to confess to recently feeling a little networked-out after 2 days at a conference, as wonderful as it was, and in spite of the amazing networks I formed there. I used this realisation, which hit me as I settled wearily into my train seat for the journey home, to take some time to… Read More Let them shine . . .
This is a good piece – “Mansplaining – what does it mean?” – though I do feel it’s being unfair on the male sex. If I was smart enough I’d come up with a more generic term to describe this phenomenon, but in the absence of that brilliance, I hope the men reading this will… Read More Mansplaining?!
“The sea is the physical equivalent of the World Wide Web.”Rear Admiral Chris Parry BBC Radio 4, Today, 21 November 2016
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