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Get back in your comfort zone!

I’ve had a Bodyline week, except with none of Bradman’s finesse: challenges and opportunities have been hurtling towards me at 150kph and all I’ve been able to do is swing wildly at them, hoping they didn’t conk me on the head. But still: I swung, all the while wondering what was happening to my comfort… Continue reading Get back in your comfort zone!

Published July 22, 2015
Categorized as Blog, Language and Behaviour, Thoughts on words, Uncategorized

The Lesson of the Supermarket Flowers

My lovely husband of five years came a little late to the party of bringing me flowers, but now does it wonderfully regularly. And then he brought me a bunch from the supermarket. “They’re only from the supermarket…” he muttered apologetically, holding them out. My reaction surprised him. I did what I always do, and… Continue reading The Lesson of the Supermarket Flowers

Published February 13, 2015
Categorized as Blog, Uncategorized

Persona stories

  I’m big on voice. (I also have a big voice. Call it the Latin in me, call it lack of consideration, but despite one of my trainers and colleagues calling it “a caramel voice”, I actually had someone tell me off in a cafĂ© for being too loud the other day. But I digress.)… Continue reading Persona stories

Published February 9, 2015
Categorized as Blog, Communication, Thoughts on words, Uncategorized, Writing

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