Without fail, my partner always finds that prime parking place. What a coincidence! Don’t you hate that? Have you even gone to phone a friend to find your friend is phoning you? What a coincidence! Don’t you love that? Or it suddenly hits you that Jack The Ripper and Kermit The Frog share the same […] Read more…
Who has had little people, kids, in their lives in the last 27 years? Yes? So this character will be familiar to you then? Someone tell me who he is. Yes! – THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR from the 1987 classic children’s book of the same name by Eric Carle. I read this story to my […] Read more…
“Are you planning something for Robbie’s day?” A friend private messaged me this question on Facebook a week ago. Planning something? My mind went into freefall. Planning something sounded grand, elaborate and meaningful; an event. Planning something sounded like an expectation to engage with the moment, the day, the past two years of finding a […] Read more…
A Google search assures us that the oft cited phrase, off the cuff, means “without preparation, impromptu, ad lib.” At Toastmasters we call off the cuff speaking: Table Topics. People die a thousand deaths waiting for their turn; well I do. Improving at Table Topics; off the cuff speaking; is my challenge. Magic happens when a […] Read more…
I was down by the lily-pond leaning against the rough, black trunk of an iron-bark tree; sheltering in its shade from the hot afternoon sun. We were a group of students tasked with mindfully communing with nature; searching for an answer to an issue in our lives. This was a class exercise for the subject, […] Read more…