Every day you live is a special occasion
© Gaye Wilson 2009 Today is my father’s birthday. If he had lived, he would have been 83. Although he has been gone for three and a half years, I saw something that he would have liked the other day,...
View ArticleHow to record streaming audio and video
© Gaye Wilson 2010 I’ve been frustrated recently with my lack of technical knowledge about downloading from the internet. I signed up for an online course that provided the lessons in streaming video...
View ArticleThere’s a dragon in my garden!
© Gaye Wilson 2010 I went to put my dogs in their day pens this morning, and stopped short. On the ground at the bottom of a tree in one of the pens was something unexpected. I moved closer and saw the...
View ArticleParalysed by fear? How to overcome it.
Image by Kriss Szkurlatowski © Gaye Wilson 2010 I’ve heard of people being paralysed with fear before, and I’ve seen it – they go rigid, stare into space, and can’t move. It takes ages to come out of...
View ArticleNever EVER give up
© Gaye Wilson 2012 Ninety years ago this week, on 6th November 1912, archaeologist Howard Carter stumbled upon some steps leading down to a hitherto unknown royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings in...
View ArticleHow to stop saying “It’s too hard!”
© Gaye Wilson 2013 Well, I finished my Russian diploma in 2011, and started a new language: Italian. As with the Russian, I am learning it by distance, which means that I do not attend classes. The way...
View ArticleMay 2014 be all you need it to be
© Gaye Wilson 2013 Well, a new year is closing in fast. What did you accomplish in 2013? Was it all you wanted it to be? Was it a disappointment? Was it awful or awesome? Did you plan the year, or have...
View ArticleHow to limit your internet browsing by self-reporting
© Gaye Wilson 2013 Do you browse the internet for hours at a time? I have been known to do so. And at the end of the day, I’m tired and annoyed with myself. Typically, I don’t have much to show for...
View ArticleFind Your Buzz
(c) Gaye Wilson 2014 Image courtesy of http://www.freeimages.com/profile/garwee I’ve just come back from the Third Australasian Egyptology Conference, a three-day conference for scholars in the...
View ArticleDo something different
If you are not happy with something, do something different. Make a change. Try another way. But make sure you do it with respect, consideration and information, not blind faith, hero worship or...
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