by Anonymous | 6th Apr 2021 | Stress and Burnout, The Covid Diaries
It isn’t called a sinking feeling for nothing. It feels like you’re in a lift, plummeting down the outside of a skyscraper, out of control, hurtling towards the inevitable. Your stomach is like a washing machine on fast spin, and the dread, deep in your...
by Anonymous | 5th Jan 2021 | Education, Humanity
“Show me your teeth!” It was not a request, but an order. Standing very close, in front of me, so that I could see his nasal hair, and feel his breath upon my face, this tall, well built, strange man issued his order...
by Anonymous | 29th Dec 2020 | Humanity, Leadership
An annual Christmas tradition in our family is watching the Harry Potter films in the week leading up to the big day. It is now seven years since we visited the studios where for three hours I totally lost myself in another world. Transported out of my own reality for...