by Eugenie Verney | Feb 24, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
It’s Day 20, the penultimate day of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m looking at being the outsider… I’ve moved home 15 times so far and while I know that’s chicken feed for your average forces family, it’s still pretty fair going for most mortals. The...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 21, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
We’ve arrived at Day 19 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’ve turned the clock back 50 years… It’s the day before my GCE O-Level art exam and what I’m not doing is chilling out with my friends or getting my head into any kind of a creative space. No, on...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 20, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
It’s Day 18 of my 21 Days of Courage (yup, only three more to go!) and it’s time to get mixing in the kitchen… If I were to single out one true constant that has woven its way right through my life, from the far reaches of childhood to now, it would...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 20, 2020 | Making Waves Blog
Day 17 of my 21 Days of Courage, and I’m looking beyond the bogeymen to the role of fear… There were no ogres in my family. Nobody I feared, nobody I was warned about, nobody with a reputation for actual harm, bodily or otherwise. The same applied at...
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...