“Trust, not money, is the currency of business and life.” The Trust Edge, David Horsager
This past week I had the opportunity to engage in a video blog with Old...
“Trust, not money, is the currency of business and life.” Th...
“If it is to be it is up to me.” Floyd Wickman
For your amusement today I thought we might consider precision of language and its importance – a subject even I...
“If it is to be it is up to me.” Floyd Wickman
For your amu...
It goes without saying that this has been a year beyond measure – and in so many ways.
What I find particularly fascinating is not so much what has happened bu...
It goes without saying that this has been a year beyond meas...
I came back to Bermuda recently after being marooned for over five months in Bali.
It was a long, exhausting and dramatic return journey. I took six flights:
B...
I came back to Bermuda recently after being marooned for ove...
Azhanae’ Oliver is offering healing to her peers through her faith-based coaching business. The trauma recovery coach uses her own experiences to help her clien...
Azhanae’ Oliver is offering healing to her peers through her...
My beloved mother, who is 82 years old, started having memory problems several years ago.
At first, she began to forget where she had put certain things. Then ...
My beloved mother, who is 82 years old, started having memor...
I genuinely love the last days before the New Year. I always look back and think about how it went, what happened, what interesting people I met, places I visit...
I genuinely love the last days before the New Year. I always...
I cannot live a quiet life. I always have to come up with new projects and exciting dreams. I’m not interested in following routines.
If I find myself slipping...
I cannot live a quiet life. I always have to come up with ne...
No matter what the subject is, everyone always says, “Don’t look back”.
For the most part I would agree with this.
Looking back is not for the faint of heart, ...
No matter what the subject is, everyone always says, “Don’t ...
If someone were to tell me this fantastic story I would say it cannot be true.
But it happened to me in August four years ago. We spend every summer on our isl...
If someone were to tell me this fantastic story I would say ...
All my life I have done everything possible to realise my dreams.
When I arrived in Bermuda, I had a long cherished dream: I wanted to learn how to play tennis...
All my life I have done everything possible to realise my dr...
On our wedding anniversary this summer, Bill and I began a tradition of planting a tree on our island in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota.
In August y...
On our wedding anniversary this summer, Bill and I began a t...
It was a crushingly hot afternoon. My husband Bill and I were walking with our Swiss friends, Nika and Rubik.
It was June, and Europe was in the midst of a heat...
It was a crushingly hot afternoon. My husband Bill and I wer...
How do you maintain your connection with nature and passion for adventure when you live in a big and busy city? How do you keep your spirit alive? You find unus...
How do you maintain your connection with nature and passion ...
Two weeks ago I hugged my beloved drum and gave it to my girlfriend from our drumming group Coral Beats.
She promised to take good care of it and write to me ab...
Two weeks ago I hugged my beloved drum and gave it to my gir...
Two days ago, my husband, Bill, and I celebrated an important anniversary. Exactly seven years ago, I sailed to Bermuda on a cruise ship and met him at Dockyard...
Two days ago, my husband, Bill, and I celebrated an importan...
Is it bad what happens to us, just bad? Two weeks ago, Bill and I attended the Bermuda International Film Festival.
It is an important cultural event here, one ...
Is it bad what happens to us, just bad? Two weeks ago, Bill ...
For the last year of your working life you counted the days until you would be free like a kid looking forward to Christmas.
You calculated your retirement inc...
For the last year of your working life you counted the days ...
It was five o’clock in the morning. I was alone.
I awoke and put on my rough, white linen robe. I walked out onto the wooden planks of my small hut.
Thick morn...
It was five o’clock in the morning. I was alone.
I awoke an...
Even demons become kinder if they are fed on time and treated well.
I learnt this last week, when we attended a service at a small Hindu temple in the remote mo...
Even demons become kinder if they are fed on time and treate...
New Year’s Eve for Russian people is the most important holiday of the year.
The table in each household is crammed with food, drinks and treats. Russian women...
New Year’s Eve for Russian people is the most important holi...
What a special and wonderful time of the year, filled with both magic and kindness.
I love the smell of nutmeg, cinnamon and pine needles, the sparkle of decor...
What a special and wonderful time of the year, filled with b...
What can we do when something happens in our lives that causes us to be very afraid?
Certain events can completely change our status quo or even turn our lives...
What can we do when something happens in our lives that caus...
Have you ever started something important, something you look forward to and anticipate?
You see it clearly in your mind’s eye, when suddenly everything changes...
Have you ever started something important, something you loo...
How do I know what true love is? This morning we received the results of my annual scan from the doctor.
My husband jumped out on to the sunny porch of our summ...
How do I know what true love is? This morning we received th...
Yellow bundles of bananas, tight blue plums, bunches of transparent green grapes, deep red apples, soft and curvy pears, succulent yellow mangoes … I glanced ov...
Yellow bundles of bananas, tight blue plums, bunches of tran...