Monthly Archives: January 2016

Wishing you a happy mournful recognition-filled Australia Invasion Survival Day!

By | January 26th, 2016|Categories: Uncategorized|

On Australia Day in 2009 I was working in Germany. I decided to send an email to my colleagues there to give them some explanation of the day. It was something of a task to write, because the day is not cut-and-dry happy: it's fraught and loaded. Here's the text of the email: [...]

Author Carla Billinghurst

By | January 22nd, 2016|Categories: conversations, learning, zombies|Tags: , , , , |

Self-confidence. Self-permission. Moxie! These are the things I admire most in others. So I decided to contact someone who comes across as having all of these good good things, and ask her Why? How? Where can I find mine? Basically it's the best conversation ever. Basically it's the best conversation ever. It's a many-tentacled [...]

Year 2016. Happy New!

By | January 1st, 2016|Categories: me stuff|Tags: , |

Well, it's 2016. Time to get planny*. What are you going to do differently this year?   *opinion seems to be divided on what 'planny' actually means, but I'm using it anyway.