Amanda Visser
- Apr 25, 2018
- 4 min
How to deal with colleagues when you’re the new boss
A team of peers may operate with relative ease when each member has the same rank, status and sources of power. When one person’s status or
Ann Werner
- Nov 16, 2017
- 3 min
Ubuntu and the Dog-eared Journey
I love words. I collect words; … and bundles of words, phrases and quotes and sometimes, in the moment, because they are hitting the...
Ann Werner
- Nov 2, 2017
- 5 min
Empty Nest Syndrome
Empty Nest Syndrome is not a clinical diagnosis, but it is a sorely felt and uncomfortable phenomenon, the symptoms of which often go...
Ann Werner
- Oct 31, 2017
- 2 min
"Is it your pain or another pain"?
Last week I took my daughter to our very thorough and competent physiotherapist. She had had a particularly sporty week above the norm...
Ann Werner
- Sep 14, 2017
- 2 min
That Little Orange Piece
I can be a good patient, although most often retiring to my sick bed is a bitter sweet acquiescence to the higher power of my body. She...
Ann Werner
- Aug 3, 2017
- 1 min
Hot butter-milk sponge
I don’t think that I was ever taught to bake, but I can remember sitting on the kitchen counter, legs swinging happily while licking...