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...
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Middle aged, middle class Australian woman shares pizza and opinions with young Middle Eastern men from Syria in Serbia
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Whale sharks have over 300 rows of teeth to filter plankton and krill-but are harmless to us humans-who sometimes need to filter information in our busy-ness of business. When in...
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Yes, there really is such a place as but before media reports of the recent French liberation from al Qaeda, few people believed it actually existed. More than just a...
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How’s this for technology….was in Helsinki airport awaiting a flight to Amsterdam-when I received an email about speaking in Istanbul as a result of a guy from London that I...
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Local cafe sign reads: Short blacks-long blacks-All Blacks! Gotta love it and here’s to a New Zealand win in World Cup Rugby. It’s a nation passionate about the sport, had to juggle venues after...
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