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Dear Carla: My ex-boyfriend and I get along well. We have two children together. He comes to my house a lot to check on the children and most times he and I end up chilling in my room. Nothing sinister goes on as the door is always open and the child...

Dear Heather I have verbally accepted an offer on my house, so it’s finally sold, right? Enthusiastic Devonshire Dear Enthusiastic Great news on receiving an offer at a price point you think you can work with; however, you still have a long way t...

Momentum. Have you momentum in your life and your business? We can all choose between doing nothing and doing something. The former almost always gives you the same results that you have had — and often you can go backwards in whatever it is you are ...

Dear Carla: Please bear with me, I am in a relationship that I know I should leave. He is like the girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead. When he is good he is good, but when he is bad, he is horrid. First of all, he does not have a job, t...

Service. This past week celebrated 90 years of Rotary in Bermuda. A lot of the focus was on one Bermudian who truly put “service above self” and helped make a major difference in our world through the Rotary Polio Plus programme. The objective of thi...

Dear Carla, Let me start by saying congratulations on the one year anniversary of your column. I read it every week and love it. I vowed I would never write to you but something is really bothering me and I’m interested to see how you feel. My boyf...

Complement. So often when we are working on a project or a complex set of tasks we can find it overwhelming or difficult to wrap our heads around the real issues and come up with good solutions. The best examples of this are the entrepreneurs who op...

Dear Carla, I am in a relationship with a woman who I love dearly. She’s good to me and we have a good time together but I have one problem with her. When she drinks she doesn’t know when to stop and once she’s drunk she becomes a handful. She’s rude...

Steps to Success: ‘Daaahlings!’ I once worked with a theatre director who called everyone darling, but said in that wonderfully pretentious way that only true luvvies can pull off. I assumed it was affectation but she later confided, “I couldn’t poss...

Dear Carla: I think that my boyfriend is cheating on me. Every time I go to his house at night his phone never rings. But let’s say if I see him during the day it’s on loud and sometimes rings. I’ve told him what I’ve noticed and he swears his phone ...