I ran Walthamstow parkrun on Saturday in my slowest time for many months. Aside from being ill recently, I lost fitness over the summer because of my eye, the ground on the parkrun was very muddy, puddles were all over the place and grip was at a premium. I exceeded my usual running heart rate… Read More Context is everything
It’s International Women’s Day on Sunday – 8th March – and the theme this year is #EachforEqual. #EachforEqual is all about what IWD calls “Collective Individualism”; that means together we can help create a more gender equal world. To mark the day, I wanted my blog to reflect that. Today’s post comes from the international… Read More International Women’s Day 2020
I wrote the other day about how my identity isn’t my reputation, but a sum of a range of activity over my life. I made a conscious decision 10+ years ago to do things differently. After I posted I got a message from someone who asked “how do you this stuff?”. The answer is 3… Read More How do you do this stuff?
Being in learning means I get to see presentations – a lot of presentations. It’s easy to be snarky about them – I’m the first to admit to doing that when the circumstances dictate. It’s also easy to forget how much of a challenge they are to people new to doing them and someone not… Read More Presentation skills
I’ve written about labels before but we’re more than the label we give ourselves. I didn’t want to be the person who only ever does things for nil/neutral cost because that’s what I’d always be asked to do. The things that make me, well me, isn’t the edgy feature but the simple, dull, foundations which… Read More What you are known for
Lost and Desperate 