Archive for the “writing” category
Fighting Tigers: Being Anxious
by Pippa on July 15, 2011
For a while now I’ve been wanting to write more openly about my struggles with anxiety disorder and its effects: depression, procrastination / perfectionism, feeling like an imposter, the mess it’s helping me make of my professional life and the …
far / fahren
by Pippa on May 16, 2011
[Don't get confused - it's not a direct translation, but the alliteration fits.]
I’ve lived overseas (on and off) for about 5 years now and it has always been with the knowledge that distance makes it much harder to maintain …
100 Things I Want To Learn (More) About… Updated!
by Pippa on October 3, 2010
About a year and a half ago I posted a list of 100 Things I Want To Learn (More) About…. I wrote the list when I was in a more active phase of my DIY Masters, a very slowly …
In+formal
by Pippa on March 30, 2010
A couple of months ago I mentioned that I’d been accepted into a graduate program to learn more about adult learning. To try and keep my thoughts straight I’ve setup a separate blog about in+formal learning and teaching over at …
on self esteem and bugs.
by Pippa on November 14, 2009
Over the last while, and most especially the last couple of days I’ve been struggling against thoughts of poor self-esteem and self-criticism all tied up with a sense of perfectionism which would never allow me to complete anything even if …
Frühling
by Pippa on April 14, 2009
Altogether I’ve spent about 3 years in Europe since 2002, but I’ve never been in one place to watch the whole transition from deep winter to spring before.
It’s been a lovely couple of weeks here in Berlin. From the …
LIWOLI 09 – Hacklab for Art and Open Source
by Pippa on April 4, 2009
As part of the greater DIY Masters / self-organised learning project I’m attending LIWOLI 09 in Linz, Austria.
LIWOLI is an event exploring the crossovers between art and the FLOSS community. I’ll be recording a series of interviews with participants …
Talking To Myself
by Pippa on March 8, 2009
A wise woman* once described her self-help ethos to me:
“It’s called ‘Having a talk with yourself.’”
And it was all based on the understanding that it’s far easier to give other people advice than it is to apply those …
150Things: #4 On becoming Friends
by Pippa on March 6, 2009
One of the reasons that I’ve become so interested in the process of friendship creation is that over the last 3 years I’ve been moving from place to place. I’ve stayed in Helsinki, Sheffield and Berlin for a minimum of …
Victim Of Geography
by Pippa on March 23, 2008
I’m not sure if you’ve ever noticed this mental phenomena or if it even has a name, but hopefully I’ll describe it in a way that makes sense.
You might regularly pass along a street and so the facades of …
