IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
Any advice?
I know that several of my readers work or have worked in the education field and/or have raised teenagers, so I'd like to ask your advice... My daughter Julie has always been academically advanced. She started doing fractions in kindergarten and had read all of the...
We need more MEN to help with the Girl Effect!
After writing my last post, visiting several of the other blog posts written for the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign, and watching some of the Girl Effect videos, I am left with a thought that keeps niggling at me... We desperately need more MEN to help with the Girl...
Haunted by the little girls
This is my contribution to the Girl Effect Blogging Campaign. After you've read my post, I invite you to visit the other amazing writers who have participated. There are images of young girls that sometimes haunt me when I lie in my bed at night trying to cross the...
Please welcome… my new baby!
I bet you didn't know I was about to give birth! Okay, so it's not a flesh and bones baby, but it certainly feels like I've gone through all of the steps of the birthing process - germination of the seed, gestation, labour, and even the occasional heartburn. And......
Welcome! Come dream with me…
There's a question that's taken up residence in my heart. It's a big question, so it takes up a lot of room. Even when I try to ignore it, it keeps nagging at me, imploring me to engage. What could happen for the world if all of us - women AND men - learned to trust...
Birthing Sophia Leadership #5
This post originally appeared on my personal blog, Fumbling for Words, in October 2010 when I was imagining Sophia Leadership into existence. As life and time take me further and further away from that incredible circle of women who met by a lake last weekend, I...
Birthing Sophia Leadership #4
This post originally appeared on my personal blog, Fumbling for Words, in October 2010 when I was imagining Sophia Leadership into existence. Here's the thing... Sophia won't leave me alone. She's like a kid who won't stop begging and pleading and stomping her foot...
Birthing Sophia Leadership #3
This post originally appeared on my personal blog, Fumbling for Words, in August 2010 when I was imagining Sophia Leadership into existence. Warning: This post is mostly just me thinking aloud. Feel free to ignore it if you get easily annoyed with the inner angst of...
Birthing Sophia Leadership #2
This post originally appeared on my personal blog, Fumbling for Words, in June 2010, when I began imagining Sophia Leadership into being. "Bring your vulnerability, your tenderness, your fear. Bring your questions - bring the things that puzzle you. Be prepared to...
Birthing Sophia Leadership #1
This post originally appeared on my personal blog, Fumbling for Words, in June 2010 when I began imagining Sophia Leadership into being. I don't remember the question that we were supposed to discuss at our table group, but I remember where it lead us. One of the...
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