Some say life’s not fair when playboys lie on beaches and bask in lard and larceny, while children unknown gasp just for life. But should you choose to care and share with joyful abundance What riches await your simple gifts. – Mark McClure PS – This year I’ll support the Oxfam Trailwalk in Japan by [...]
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” Professor Albert Bartlett I came across Prof Bartlett’s work while I was googling how to better explain percentage changes to my sixth grade daughter recently. Having taught Maths & Physics in the UK many moons ago I was intrigued enough [...]
Oxfam Japan’s Trailwalker event is coming up on 16-18 May and it’s a tough one: Complete 100Km in 48 hours through the “hilly” Japanese countryside. Team Satree-Lek are up for the challenge and I wish them well. They did it last year – my daughter and I were part of their support team. If you [...]
Have current “problems” in world financial markets (probably an understatement, I know…) spooked your career change plans? I don’t blame you – people have a natural (survival) inclination “to batten down the hatches” in uncertain times and concentrate on staying afloat. And I know all too well for a lot of potential career changers that [...]
… but sometimes they can be useful. For example, many years ago my early winter athletics training schedule looked something like this:
