{this memory} is the story behind {this moment} that was shared last Monday, a weekly ritual sharing a moment in time captured forever. One thing that is certain to make a lot of people quake in their boots is public speaking. As an incredibly shy kid, it certainly did me. Unfortunately – or fortunately – [...]
Today I wanted to share with you a 12 minute TED talk from Tan Le that succeeded in bringing a tear to my eye – unexpectedly. This is Tan’s Immigration Story, and the story of generations of women who have fought hard to prove that anything can be done.
Today’s post for The Beauty of Difference series comes to you from Calisha Bennett, the writer behind the poem ‘The Beauty of Difference is…‘. Calisha is also the creator and blogger at ‘Diamonds of Islam‘. About Calisha I am a 26-year-old, Australian born Muslim woman. My father is ‘Aussie’ and my mum is from Christmas Island. [...]
Today’s post in ‘The Beauty of Difference’ series comes to you from the awesomeness that is Lalia Voce – the blogger behind ‘Skank, Rattle and Roll‘. Lalia is part of an amazing bloggers group I’m a member of called ‘Personal Bloggers Are Us’, and immediately struck a chord with me as she shared the grief [...]
You may not think that a little thing such as being born with red hair could have so much of an impact on someones life…but it has. As a little girl I’m sure people thought I was cute – with my shock of red hair flaming around my face. That all changed. I grew older, [...]
Today’s post in ‘The Beauty of Difference’ series comes to you from Joy Page Manuel, who describes herself as ‘a former academic, currently a blogging mom, aspiring writer, astrophysicist, gazillionaire philanthropist and goddess, and undoubtedly a perpetual dreamer, hopeless romantic, and overanalyzer.’ Find more from Joy on her blog Catharsis! In mulling over this series The Beauty of Difference, it suddenly occurred [...]
Today’s stunning post in ‘The Beauty of Difference’ series comes to you from Marie Loerzel. Maria is an American living and travelling in Morocco for 2 years with her husband and 4 children. She writes humorous tales of the trials, tribulations and adventures of raising kids in a foreign land at Rock The Kasbah. Please do check out Marie’s blog – [...]
After a lot of blood, sweat and tears…actually there were no tears from me…the Ebook as a result of the first Emergen Blogging for a Cause event – an International Women’s Day tribute – has been published online. In case you missed it, March 8 2011 was International Women’s Day, and Emergen – the site [...]
I wanted to share with you some posts of some awesome women bloggers I have had the honour to get to know over the last few months, courtesy of the embarkment on my blogging journey. They have joined us at Emergen in taking up the challenge to ‘Blog for a Cause’ for International Women’s Day, [...]
I have never placed a shameless plug on my blog before, but this is something really important to me, and I’d love all of my readers to join me in BLOGGING FOR A CAUSE! What is Blogging for a Cause? Throughout the year, Emergen will be choosing different causes, themes and issues to encourage members [...]