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I’m just home from Africa, having avoided a coup in Ethiopia where the government closed down all Wi-Fi for 3 weeks; which gave me fresh material on disruption to address...

In this vast land sandwiched between China and Russia, discomfort too tamely describes the shivering, bone rattling ride in the relic of a Russian UAZ off road vehicle. The ex-military...

1.  Swim between the red and yellow flags There’s a certain irony about following the rules and staying in a ‘safety zone’ of a career or conventional wisdom-OR venturing further...

Middle aged, middle class Australian woman shares pizza and opinions with young Middle Eastern men from Syria in Serbia As a middle aged, middle class Western woman, I don’t hang...

How ironic to send Chinese Year of the Goat greetings from this livestock market in Oman. A few days earlier, I spoke at a conference in the sophisticated capital Muscat...

1. Check more than one source…Luckily I checked with a friend in Athens and was able to enjoy an amazing time in a great country. 2. Sensationalism sells but sustainability...

Until this conference, I felt that twitter only frittered time that could be better spent writing; that a blog would bog me down from penning the next great literary masterpiece...

Life is so random.  When you go climbing, you assess and accept the risk-but for thousands of Nepalese families going about daily life-they could never have anticipated such devastation. As...