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Duck and Cover was one of the winning stories performed by the wonderful Lin Sagovsky at the 'Women and Girls' Liars League event ...

Books do not need to be literary masterpieces to be insightful. Neither do they need to be an overall success. They can, like The Secre...

'Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.'   Marga...

At the Rainbow Hamlets ' Hustings for Tower Hamlets Mayor, I heard variations of the word 'tolerance' more times in an hour...

Buttons are my nemeses and old habits die hard. After four days of having a broken arm, these are two insights into a world, I had, unt...

Walking in the Cotswolds this weekend was both pain and pleasure. And full of the ups and downs you would expect. Before the weekend ...

Reading online updates from my daughter in Australian while visiting my Mum in Spain, I am reminded of another visit to Spain many years be...

'One learns most clearly what not to do by reading bad prose... Good writing, on the other hand, teaches the learner writer about sty...

Graffiti on 6th St, Williamsburg, New York Working with some young people with complex needs this week on their speech and language s...

“Education is the most powerful weapon  which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela Anderson in The Community Builde...

My experience of the Open University includes talking to an older colleague about a course he used for stimulus, my daughter's part ti...

Learning and Memory Graffiti by Paula Delfin 'Learning is how you acquire new information about the world, and memory is how you...

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is...

Learning about the value of mistakes , I stayed up until early morning (2.37am. as I write) watching TED Talks . This in itself is a mista...

"Make glorious, amazing mistakes" was Neil Gaiman's advice in his New Year Wish , "because if you are making mistakes, t...

New York Graffiti on Rock on the Shore of the Hudson, 2014 What makes a good year? Can anything we do influence the year to come, apar...