I wanted to stay up late to watch the Oscars ceremony on Sunday night, only to find that even if I had, it wasn’t on a TV channel I could get easily. Seems the ceremony is not on terrestrial  TV anymore or even what I have on my set-top. Still, the following morning, I lay

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A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.  Erma Bombeck It’s said February is one of the most depressing months because we’ve failed on all our get trim/lose weight pledges. If anyone is going to join a gym or a weight-loss scheme, they will have already done it. Just a few weeks

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I was saddened to wake up to the news of another great singer’s death. This time, Whitney Houston was found dead in her bath at 48. On the back of the untimely death of our great UK singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse and any number of stories circulating in the press about women singers struggling to deal

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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things — but not

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Thomas Jefferson With the media highlighting the issue of banker’s bonuses through Stephen Hester at RBS, I don’t feel I can ignore the issue when I’m thinking about things from a 360 WISDOM perspective. What’s going on here poses a series

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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.  ~Faith Whittlesey As part of the work to promote my 360 Wisdom: Empowering Women workshop series, I’ve been researching women’s groups and associations near to and in the cities where I’m performing. Because my work in the past has tended to

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I’m really pleased to be doing a regular blog called ‘Words of Wisdom’ on NHS online and Public Sector Online. These websites offer news and advice to staff working in the NHS and the Public Sector (local government, housing, police, fire,etc). As many of my family have worked for the public sector, this is really

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No, you read the title correctly. How can this be so in a recession? Well, for a start it all depends how you frame things and view the world. I prefer to be in the optimists camp and I’m going to work in partnerships with as many quality organisations as I can to promote businesses

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The Soroptomist UK International Programme Action Committee is now supporting my 360 WISDOM: Empowering Women Tour (see http://www.soroptimist-ukpac.org/about/show/424/) This is a fantastic organisation with over 100,000 women members world-wide. They do good work suporting all kinds of projects for disadvantaged women. For example, those women who live suffering from torture and abuse. At every event,

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I’m talking about 360 WISDOM on film so those of you who are interested in coming to the ‘Empowering Women’ one day workshop I’m holding in February and March 2012 can find out more about the day and what it involves. If you click on this link http://youtu.be/AZYnmEu10uo  you can see me sitting in a

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