This morning I decided to do my “work out loud” story using my phone camera and video editing software on my phone rather than using Instagram Stories (or in the past, I used Snapchat stories). The reason is that as I have an old phone (iPhone 6), Instagram is now becoming glitchy on it and […]
Happy 5th Birthday Adopt & Embrace
Happy 5th birthday Adopt & Embrace! I have been working for Adopt & Embrace for a little over two years now and it’s been a fantastic job working for a great team of people and for a business that espouses a focus on people and community. We are a B-Corporation and everything that we do […]
Resources I Use to Learn French
Many people on Twitter have asked me what resources I’ve been using to learn French recently. Others have also shared their own resources and apps they use to learn a language. I marvel at the huge amount of resources we have available – mostly free and readily available to learn a language. I have written […]
Importance of Feedback When Using Video
Many of you already know that for some years since 2016, I have been showing and sharing my work and learning out loud using Snapchat as the video editor of choice. Since early 2019, I stopped using Snapchat because it came too glitchy on my phone. When I first started using it over 4 years […]
Everyone is Talking Learning But Beware the Myths
So a funny thought has been swirling around in my head lately. It’s because I’ve been in a few situations with people outside my field of Learning and Development and on various conferences unrelated to this field, who are now talking about the importance of professional development. Given the pace of change that we’ve all […]
Women, Be Like Rita
Since subscribing to Netflix this year (yes, I’m a bit late to the game because I had tons of other content I was accessing – and well, basically, life….until COVID hit), I have been watching some wonderful shows. Sure, there are some crap ones on Netflix (oh boy, are there some shit shows on Netflix) […]
Reducing Screen Time
Last night I received a notification on my phone to tell me that my screen time had reduced by 10% this week. What wonderful news! I was on leave for the last week and used much of my time catching up with various chores around the house and garden as well as long stretches of […]
What My Cat Teaches Me About Myself
I love my cat. Let me introduce you to him. His name is Pud. He is about 5 years old and he’s been with us – his forever home – for the last couple of years. Every day I’m thankful that he’s come into our lives because he’s brought with it so much joy, laughter […]
Learning French
By now you would have seen the tweets where I bang on about learning French. Many years ago in the (*cough*) I did six years of French but I failed. What a waste of six years of doing a language at high school! Since then, the only time I spoke the language was three times […]
Writing in a Journal
A funny thing happened while I started writing in a paper journal once again after many years. I’ve become calmer as it allows me to start the day with a positive note rather than reading something on social media and getting anxious about answering tweets and direct messages first thing in the morning. I’ve now […]