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Croatia, June 2015
→: Croatia, June 2015[slickr-flickr search=”sets” set=”72157661283650831″ align=”center”] Croatia was on my list of Places to Go for two reasons: firstly, the Plitvice lakes. Secondly, The Museum of Broken Relationships. It didn’t disappoint. After arriving we drove straight from Zagreb Airport to Plitvice, modulo some time negotiating an automatic rental car. It’s a longish drive but really pretty, although we…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Went to Venice, which was great. Got to see the Biennale, and Peggy Guggenheim’s collection which was awesome. Been wanting to go to Venice for months, so it was nice to finally do that. Was also some really good alone time. I had been feeling a bit wrung out after everything, so it was…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Quiet week, things have calmed down and I reactivated my twitter account, but I’ve been dealing with the emotional fallout. By dealing with I mean: going to the gym twice a day and booking plane tickets. Got so much support from people I feel guilty about feeling less than stellar about things, but I guess…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife In Amsterdam with friends, which was great. On social media lockdown because of nonsense, which wasn’t. My friend Beryl passed away recently. She deserves a lot of credit for starting conversation about unconscious bias (a talk she gave). She also had many technical achievements and an international career. Most of all she was a lovely person…
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My Life as a White Migrant
→: My Life as a White MigrantEver since I read this article on the use of the word “expat” being exclusive to white people from western countries, I have been thinking about my own experiences living in a variety of places, through that lense. The words we use are not the only difference. When it comes to my immigration situation,…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Started the week in Seattle, where I got to catch up with friends (yay!), then headed to Medellin, Colombia, and finished the week at Toronto airport for the last 2 flights back to Europe. I was feeling like I had transcended sleep and food, but then I was a little bit poisoned by peanuts…
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This Week
→: This WeekLife Catching up with many friends at GHC which was great. Started the week in the UK, went to Texas, and then ended the week in Seattle (my favourite US city) where I’ve got to hang with friends and connect IRL with Twitter friends! Not enough sleeping or food but somehow I am full of energy……
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This Week
→: This WeekLife I was so boring this week, it was amazing. I went to a terrible place (basically the 90s) to hang out with a friend, got a massage (OK 2) and a facial and a pedi, and worked out with my trainer a bunch – managed to get up to 300 kilos on the leg…
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Space and Time
→: Space and TimeThe list of things I’ve learned this year is pretty long, but one thing I keep coming back to is: if you want something different, you have to create space for it. And so I have tried to deliberately create it (with mixed results) but above all be mindful about what (and who) I let…