by Eugenie Verney | Feb 20, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
We’ve arrived at Day 16 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m exploring why I’ve never been a boss… Managing other people was definitely not my parents’ strongest suit, and that’s not really surprising. Neither of them wanted to become managers and neither of them...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 17, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
I learned through osmosis growing up that not only was ours a slightly peculiar family, it was also unusually small. While friends spoke of grandmothers and grandfathers, great-this, great-that, multiple aunts and uncles, and battalions of cousins near and far, I...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 14, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
We’ve arrived at Day 14 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m exploring why I use one particular word as much as I do… I apparently have a habit of labelling things as ‘fine’. I only know this because my daughter flagged it up to me a week or so ago. She...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 13, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
We’re at Day 13 of my 21 Days of Courage writing challenge, and today I explore a little ritual of my father’s making… Spelling was a really big deal at homework time when I was growing up. So much so that my father would actually decline to comment...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 12, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
If I bring to mind the spaces I grew up in, I struggle to recall much about what was on the walls or what there was by way of artefacts. We certainly didn’t do fine art, nor did we do ornaments, and given ours was a 100% god-free household we obviously didn’t do...