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This page contains many articles I've written over the years in pursuit of learning, reflection, and personal development.

Themes include productivity, wellbeing, teaching, defusing bullying, culture, heritage, facilitation & more.

You will find that some of these posts are originally published on LinkedIn.

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Three sources of comfort when you feel lost: friendship, healing protocols, and pausing.

"I’ve just finished baking a cake”, she tells me. "A healthy one!" She adds. I can hear her wink, grinning through the phone. This would...

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Life lessons from a wise friend: keep it simple, know what you like, let love happen.

A good teacher is hard to find. And for however long teachers have existed in the world, people of all generations and times have...

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Four ideas to lighten your heart when things seem bleak

This week, along with much of India and Palestine, I experienced the loss of a loved one. And in navigating this, I found myself trying...

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The art of Chinese (and of life) is in the details

My student and I are in a Chinese lesson. We are in the middle of doing a Tingxie (a dictation) and they have written the same characters...

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Time: the greatest sacrifice

Did you know in Chinese, and in English, both languages can talk about time by using the word ’spend’? For example, in Chinese - the...

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The power of a 'Pai-shou'

Note: about the word ‘Pai-shou’ in this post - Pai is pronounced like ‘Pie’ from Meat Pie in English, and shou is like ‘Show’ in ‘TV...

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