by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 26, 2021 | Podcast, Random Acts of Kindness, Random Acts of Suzanne, Thoughts
It’s been a while and a great deal has happened since I decided to record something for you – Coronavirus, the final severing of the UK from the EU, the end of Trump and the beginning of Biden – and it made me think of a book that I inherited from my...
by Suzanne Whitby | Oct 14, 2020 | Communication, Thoughts
Read this out loud: You’re giving a presentation? That’s… good news? Except that you’re a little nervous? And hesitant? And so you start raising your pitch at the end of every sentence? Everything you say starts to sound like a question, even when you know what you’re...
by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 5, 2020 | Classics, Thoughts
If, like me, you’re working with Eurpides’ and Seneca’s Troades or Trojan Women texts, you might find it helpful to see how modern theatre groups interpret these works. Obviously I was, which is why I spent several days scouring the internet and...
by Suzanne Whitby | Apr 4, 2020 | On a personal note, Thoughts
About 10 years ago, my father gave me a beautiful watch that had once belonged to my grandmother. I wore it on and off, and shortly after my father died, I went out and in the course of the evening, it slipped off my wrist and I couldn’t find it. I knew that the...
by Suzanne Whitby | Feb 24, 2020 | On a personal note, Thoughts
I grew up with a British-born father, who, even though he moved over to South Africa at the tender age of 3 years old, was quite the lover of the mother country. In some respects, he was more British than that Brits, having been brought up as an immigrant in a new...
by Suzanne Whitby | Jan 28, 2020 | Notes, Podcast, Random Acts of Kindness, Random Acts of Suzanne, Thoughts
A few years ago, I heard a poem called “Hokusai Says”. It was written by the rather wonderful and inspiring Roger Keyes, art historian, Hokusai scholar, and co-founder of York Zen whilst he was in Venice in 1990. It came to him as was making notes for the “Young...
