Marica’s Meanderings

My daughter drew my attention to this announcement on the Metlink web site: Route 12 will become bus Route 3 from 4 September 2006. This is to make it easier to see that this is a key route. Bus times are not changing. Routes 1 and 2, plus the new Route, are the busiest routes [...]

I sit at my desk trying to work out where to begin. There is just too much to do. I come home and I sit staring at the computer screen wondering where to begin … write my conference paper? write a blog posting? read and respond to my emails? … I look at the pile [...]

“Tonight’s mental berocca item made me think about your latest blog posting.” I wasn’t all too sure what my daughter was talking about. I heard the word berocca and I immediately visualised an orange tablet effervescing in a glass of water. I was familiar with this. At that moment I could taste this drink. It [...]

Passion has become a buzz word. It has been overused. As such it has taken the lustre off what I consider to be a highly charged word. When I see, hear or read the word passion many images and feelings come into my consciousness. Passion is active. You have to do something with it. Passion [...]

I suddenly realised today while I was eating my lunch at my desk and reading online Google News New Zealand and Stuff that I have changed. I can’t remember the last time I read a newspaper in hard copy. All my news information now comes from the internet, the odd TV news programme I manage [...]

Tell me and I will forget; Show me and I may remember; Involve me and I will understand. Confucius 450BC Over the last two days I attended a course on Coaching and Mentoring at the University of Auckland Business School. The course is part of the University�s short course programme, and was facilitated by Anouk [...]