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I don’t know about you, but I’m not very open to criticism – except my own – when I’m tired or flustered. Part of that is because my self-criticism tends to increase then, leaving not much room for others’. Self-criticism might be a good thing…

I was told as a child that I looked like my father. But as I matured, a weird thing happened – I grew more and more to resemble my mother. I remember catching my image in a mirror recently and seeing my mother. Knowing I…

In a meeting I attended recently, I was challenged on my belief that being exceedingly aggressive and accusatory was not normal. That term ‘normal’ didn’t come up, but it was assumed, at least by me. ‘Normal’ can mean the norm, as in the centre of…

It started about a month ago – at around 5:30 every morning, I’d wake to the song of a songbird. It isn’t my habit to wake at 5:30 – I work quite late – but that’s been the pattern for the last month. If it…