This is the 10th essay in the #26essays2017 challenge that I’ve set for myself this year. I’m doing this because I’m the first to admit I’ve
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Late to the party, I have become a huge fan of House of Cards. Just like Game of Thrones (of which I’m also a huge
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Christmas is upon us once again. I know it’s a cliché, but I cannot believe how quickly this year has flown past. It seems like
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Waaaaaaay back in the 1960s and 1970s, before university ethics committees stamped out these sorts of experiments, two researchers wanted to know more about how
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My sister shared some sad news with me a couple of weeks ago. Her ex-partner and also the father of her daughter—my niece—has just been
Keep readingSteven Covey wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and we all know he is the pin-up boy for effectiveness. Colleagues, managers and peers
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Monica Lewinsky is someone I didn’t think I’d be writing about on this blog. She of the intern shenanigans and the infamous blue dress and
Keep readingI was sitting in a writer’s seminar on the weekend, bored out of my brain, wishing the presenter would up the pace and that my
Keep readingThis post was first published on 10 May 2012. I’m not an active user of Twitter these days. Not like I was a couple of
Keep readingThis post was first published on 20 June, 2012. It might come as somewhat of a shock to you, dear readers, but I have quite
Keep readingWay back in 2011, I wrote a post entitled Three Words To Live By about Maria Shriver and how gracious she was. It was at
Keep readingI am receiving emails like this on an increasingly regular basis. And I get it. Publishing your work has never been easier and it’s relatively
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