Life & Learning - Laura Ritchie

Yesterday was a long travel day. Actually I'm not sure it still isn't yesterday - or maybe I skipped forward

Looking back gives an amazing simplicity to things. You know, hindsight - it's the concept of rear-view mirror culture McLuhan

'Yes' is hard sometimes...

I write about 'yes' a lot, I wrote a whole book about 'yes', and there's a lot of positivity in

Happiness is baked in

It's the time of year when people think, reflect, take time - to do things, be with people, and to

I woke up early (that's before 5am kind of early) to the sound of THERE'S SMOKE IN THE BEDROOM, THE

Sharing some joy

On Wednesday evenings I meet with extraordinary people for an hour and a half and a wonderful byproduct of that

Perfectly Complete

This is actually about something I thought was really not perfect and quite incomplete. Subtitle: 'my cake is not beautiful'.

The look of progress

I'm sure you've had moments marked by a compliment like 'well done', a sticker, star, certificate, applause... yet these aren't

You can see the video of my TEDx talk from May 15 on TED.com HERE or on YouTube below. As

I was very pleased to give this workshop seminar on writing my book for the International Federation of National Teaching