Cheese Blocks, Czech Humour, and the People Who Make Us Laugh
Listen in on my fun conversation with Monika – a young Czech woman who has a fabulous laugh and fun stories to tell about what laughter is teaching her about life.
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Built to last: What a dodgy knee taught me in Scotland
Somewhere between Edinburgh Airport and a set of stairs I had no business descending with a suitcase, I had a reckoning with my body. Specifically, with the part of me who thinks pain is just the price of doing business. Her name is Patty Pusher, and she and I are currently in negotiations.
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Change your perspective, change your life?
“Wetwo?” I said, somewhat indignantly. “Why would anyone put ‘Wet wo’ on their license plate?”
This is a question I posed to my friend Linda during a road trip years ago. We had just come up behind the car in question, and I spent a good twenty kilometers or so silently imagining what this license plate decision said about the owners (and admittedly, making judgements left, right, and centre).
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Getting off the ‘Right’ couch
“Listen here Missy! I’m right, and you’re wrong, and I don’t have to listen to you!”
Picture it. A seven-year-old girl bouncing on a couch, screaming this at me at the top of her lungs. Yup. One of my most vivid memories from years ago when I was working in a group home for kids with severe behavioural challenges.
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Going with the Flow
Coddiwomple. My word of the year. And not just because it’s so fun to say. To coddiwomple is ‘to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination’.
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Body Basics
Imagine you are in a relationship with someone who is supportive, nurturing, beautiful, brilliant, and always gives you advice and guidance with your best interest at heart.
Now imagine that you typically ignore this person’s advice, don’t respond when they tell you what they need, talk badly about them (to their face and behind their back), push them beyond what they’re comfortable with and shame them if they can’t keep up.
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