Copywriting

It takes a village

You can be the most badass single parent in the world, you're not with your children 24/7. It takes a village to raise a child.

Doing what you don't do best (anymore) (and not caring)

Next time you'll think about taking up dancing, tennis, swimming or rollerskating, don't say you're too old. Do it with your kids.

The change you want to see in your world

I haven't been posting a lot for a while. Even though April hasn't been that good financially (not bad exactly, but not good either),...

Let's stop being d***s on social media

Lately, I've been posting less on LinkedIn. Basically, I'm shocked by the way people, including me sometimes, are just mean on social...

Being stuck on repeat

I'm 43 now, which I consider neither young nor old. My age is starting to give me the privilege of experience, at least to some extent,...

Learning to communicate better: following up quickly

This week, I gained and lost two big jobs in a flash. Why? In one of the two cases, for circumstantial reasons over which I had no...

It's not me, it's not you, then what is it?

I'm becoming more and more a translator "by default". What does it mean? I'm realising that even though translation remains my main...

No pain, no gain but do we need to be so mean to ourselves anyway?

Yesterday I took the day off work for my 4th back tattoo session... This means that I took a day without earning any money to almost puke...

Kindness is free, but people prefer to be mean to each other on social media instead

I'm back on LinkedIn after a well-deserved holiday, and I must say I'm appalled at the level of aggressivity posts and comments are...

Work hard, live harder

Two weeks ago, I put my out-of-office on for the first time since 2012. Of course, I ended up replying to all my emails as I received...

Working with people you don't particularly like on difficult projects within impossible timeframes

Episode 2: Give them what they want. My last post was about those unbearable overachieving PMs, which we've all been if we started our...

Working with people you don't particularly like on difficult projects within impossible timeframes

Episode 1: Not my cup of tea, but hey Recently, I've worked on a complicated translation project with a PM I didn't find particularly...