Registrations for my annual Karma edition of 30 Days of Yoga close this coming Saturday (midnight GMT, which means 5pm PST) and I know some of you are wondering if this is right for you. So I’ve been giving some thought to how I can help you decide whether or not this is right for you [...]
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by all there is to do in the world? I know I do. When I wrote my Girl Effect post yesterday I wanted to remind you that the world can be made fairer, that girls everywhere can have more opportunities and greater freedom, that unjust global systems can be changed. [...]
Remember the Girl Effect? Last year I took part in the Girl Effect blogging campaign led by Tara Mohr. I got so excited by the conversation, I wrote four posts. First I wrote about Faezeh. If you haven’t yet, take five minutes and watch this video Faezeh and I made to see the Girl Effect in [...]
Depending how long you’ve been reading along here, you may or may not know that I used to work for Oxfam. And that I think Oxfam does great work – not just great development work, but really great advocacy and policy work. I went to work for Oxfam when I left the UN because I [...]
It’s already Mothers Day here in New Zealand and Australia. My mum lives too far away for anything but a phone call, but I was able celebrate mothers day today by babysitting for a friend so she could get some mama-time-out to play with her Sunday afternoon soccer team. They lost, sadly. But I had [...]
