Commentary, opinions, and personal views with MSP Columnist, Dawn Bates
If I had a dollar for everyone who told me they were going to write a book, I could dine out each month at a fine dining restaurant. And those who do go on to write a book, very rarely these days add anything new to the plethora of books…
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In a world where everyone is scrambling for publicity, wanting to become famous or the next BIG name in their industry, ‘Paying to Play’ has created a way of doing business that is now reaching heights of mockery, and sour tastes in the mouths of many. Over the last few…
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As I sat here wondering what to write about, considering I have sat here many times to write this article, I realised for the first time in a long time, that the words were just not flowing. Having promised Mark delivery of this article for the last week and a…
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When we look at how humanity has evolved from the early days of discovering fire, to the ability to transplant organs from one person to another, each step of the evolutionary process has happened because someone chooses to challenge the narrative of the day. In today’s world of people opting…
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How many of you have played ‘buzzword bingo’ in the boardroom? You know the game, the one made up of every latest word and phrase better suited to the corporate collection of car bumper stickers. In the last decade words such as ‘authenticity’ and ‘authentic self’ have been right up…
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Writing a book can be a lonely and daunting task, especially when every man and his dog has an opinion on how and what your book should be about. Then there is the how you are going to find the time to write it, how to structure the ideas dancing…
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Food, the stuff of dreams and nightmares, and the topic of one of my up-and-coming books. Now we could ask if the world needs yet another book on food, and with the amount of celebrity food books out there, which really do not add anything new to the market, I…
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Who would have thought a brightly coloured little square of paper could have such an impact on someone’s life, or on the lives of so many people around the world? And yet when I look up from my computer screen I am met with a rainbow of these coloured squares…
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And then I fell in love with life all over again. Sometimes we set off on a path, and before we know it, the success it brings has other people rolling out the red carpet, with invitations coming from every which way to appear in the media and be the…
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Looking down at his face, I had this calmness wash over me. Everything started slowing down and I the noise around us disappeared. Sounds like the perfect wistful gaze into a romantic partners eyes, right? Wrong. I had never met this man before, and here he was turning blue, choking…
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