Following on from my last blog post, I am continuing the series of offcuts from my forthcoming book, “Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman’s Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific”, due to be published on October 15th … Continued
Book Excerpts Part 2: Release the Fear – It’s Killing Us
Following on from my last blog post, I am continuing the series of offcuts from my forthcoming book, “Stop Drifting, Start Rowing: One Woman’s Search for Happiness and Meaning Alone on the Pacific”, due to be published on October 15th … Continued
Book Excerpts Part 1: The Environmental Imperative
Note: ooops! Somehow I managed to publish Part 2 of this series before Part 1, which is not the traditional way of doing things. Here is Part 1. Apologies!! We are doing the final edits on my Pacific book … Continued
2012 in Pictures
As is becoming my tradition, here is a recap of my year in pictures. From Cornwall to Phoenix to Dallas to Monterey to San Francisco to New Haven, it has been an amazing and fulfilling year. Seems a lot has happened … Continued
HAPPY CHRISTMAS! (reclaimed)
Following on from yesterday’s blog, Success – Measure What Matters, this Christmas might be a good time to think about what indeed does matter. If you’ve found yourself too busy doing the Christmas shopping to spend time with your nearest … Continued
Success – Measure What Matters
Last Tuesday I arrived back in the UK after wrapping up my semester at Yale as a World Fellow. It has been an amazing and formative 4 months, the influence of which I am sure will be felt for the … Continued
Mindmaps for Averting Mental Meltdown
Forgive the prolonged online absence. Time seems to have speeded up since the World Fellows retreat at the end of October, and as we draw into the closing 3 weeks of the program the tempo is increasing yet further towards … Continued
The Joy of Journaling
I promised you a blog on journaling. And I am a woman of my word. This blog will be a summary of the workshop that I gave during the recent World Fellows retreat at Race Brook Lodge in Massachusetts. Throughout … Continued
What Does The World Expect From The Next US President?
Yesterday four of the World Fellows held a panel discussion here at Yale as part of our Hot Coffee, Hot Issues series. This one was entitled: What does the world expect from the next US President? (Throughout this blog I … Continued
Yale Tales No.8: Double Retreat Treats
With just six weeks to go, I give an update from the Yale World Fellows Program. I’ve just been to two back-to-back retreats, one with the World Fellows, and one with the Pleiades Network for environmentally-minded women in leadership. Show … Continued









