CuppaGemma

Patrick Newell is a long time dear friend and colleague. At the moment he is in Iceland, having already been to Boston, Massachusetts and soon to be on somewhere else. He is filming a documentary and is hot on the tails of finishing the first ever Tokyo TED meeting last month. (I was almost there, […]

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What is not recorded is not remembered. Benazir Bhutto Memory is as fickle as a cat. We bend the shapes of events to suit our liking, or to rationalize away that which we prefer not to consider. As the context of our lives changes so does the story we tell. It’s a wee bit harder […]

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So why should the reader care? That’s the first and possibly the most important point to remember as a writer. The “so what”. Maybe on this end of the keyboard it’s interesting or funny, but if the eyes on the other end of the screen glaze and click somewhere else, you’ve lost them. Given the […]

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From the front lines of mothering… It doesn’t actually end. The day is nearly to rest, with work done and friends chatted with. Now though is the catch up with the mundane necessities. Has the rubbish gone out, is the laundry done- or wait it is done but needs to be rewashed since the clothes […]

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