When It Just Doesn’t Add Up…..
At times, Dyscalculia has definitely wrecked my life. Not being able to hold figures in my head long enough to add them up, not ‘getting’ math concepts, and in my case, actual math phobia, were bad deficits. For me, Dyscalculia extended to a whole range of struggles with perceiving and working with anything written in [...]
Enjoy That Wedding – But Consider This….
On April 29 a few billion people, from the craven to the curious, will be oohing and ahhing over the latest Royal Wedding. At times like these, the debate between the royalists and republicans is always reopened, but I do not believe that the really crucial issue of the Monarchy is a political one. For [...]
Some Truths About Men and Sex
The truth is, most of us, as Jack Nicholson memorably declared in A Few Good Men, can’t handle the truth. I’ve been engaged in couple therapy for fifteen years now and while all my clients are held in absolute regard as gloriously unique individuals, one truth is that as soon as two people get together [...]
Pandora’s Dilemma: How will the powerful try to deal with the threat of the Internet?
Last weekend, March 19-20, YouTube took down a video purporting to spell out the truth about how much radiation was leaking out of Japan’s stricken reactors. Not before it had been virally Facebooked all round the planet of course. The damage, if it was damage, was done within an hour or two of it being [...]
Pink Stinks and other womanly traits?
I long since stopped defining myself as a fully feminine woman via my performances in the zones of housework and hygiene. I am biologically girly pink, but everything else is up for negotiation. Don’t get me wrong, I do it, for myself, but I’m just not invested in it in terms of outward appearances. This [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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