Imagine this: you’ve leant your best friend your cherished slow cooker; she knows how much you value it. Even so, it eventually comes back broken. When confronted with the obvious, she either denies anything happened at her end, or swears it was already broken. If…
I’m travelling across the US, and right now I’m between Albequerque, New Mexico and Amarillo, Texas, in a tiny motel with no amenities. The only internet access is at the Dairy Queen beside it, and it’s too slow to be very useful. I’m trying for…
Below is a video about a group of indigenous women who decided to don climbing equipment, wearing their traditional clothes, and climb the Andes. Their children, their husbands, their friends all thought they were crazy. That they needed protecting. That their safety needed to come…
I was preparing for a talk on a difficult subject, and because I was nervous, started coming up with a bunch of worst-case what-ifs; so much so that I began to believe those were the only alternatives. You can guess how that talk went: I…
If you don’t think so, think again. They only way you couldn’t have is if you never read the papers or listen to the news. Gaslighting happens when someone deliberately manipulates a situation in order to make another person question themselves. That person may or…
