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13 hours ago

Words Speak Volumes When Speech is Taught with Love

To the woman who was kind to heart-broken parents: Thank You Fear and anger were wedged in my throat the day I met the woman who would become our guide through our son’s future. That was six-and-a- half-years ago and over this time the speech therapist whose office we searched…

Autism Spectrum Disorder

9 min read

Words Speak Volumes When Speech is Taught with Love
Words Speak Volumes When Speech is Taught with Love

2 days ago

Tears Are Roadmaps Back to the Cause

Those springing from change are clusters, like fists, holding onto certainty and routine until they can be let go.

Poetry

2 min read

Tears Are Roadmaps Back to the Cause
Tears Are Roadmaps Back to the Cause

Tears Are Roadmaps Back to the Cause

Photos by photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher

Those springing from change are clusters, like fists,

holding onto certainty and routine until they can be let go.

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3 days ago

The Girl and the Crow

Like an ice skater in full circular swing, she ushered away oncoming traffic from the wounded bird; a magician aligned with the mantra of the handkerchief trick.

Poetry

2 min read

The Girl and the Crow
The Girl and the Crow

Jun 12

The Heart in Head Hunting

The phrase ‘head hunter’ may sound very scary, but if you put it together with the talent-finding genius of Katerina Andreou, all the scary goes out of it. You are left with emotionally boosted and head-screwed on right professionalism to get the right candidate the right job and the right…

Employment

6 min read

The Heart in Head Hunting
The Heart in Head Hunting

Jun 5

Love that Carries on for Two

When you feel you might understand who someone was because of the way the love of their life talks about their absence, you know you are in the presence of a poetic love. The one part of this love story is Lisa Suhair Majaj who, in fact, is a poet…

Death

4 min read

Love that Carries on for Two
Love that Carries on for Two

May 29

The Man Who Won’t Sit Still

“I would have a vineyard and make wine.” This is the answer Paul Koronis gave me about 20-years ago when I asked him what his perfect job or life would look like. I imagined him standing on top of a hillside in Italy or Spain, looking over his large patch…

Motivation

5 min read

The Man Who Won’t Sit Still
The Man Who Won’t Sit Still

May 22

When Raw Talent Snaps You Up

Talent, you either have it or you don’t. Don’t argue. My talent is letting you talk to yourself, make you think I am agreeing with everything you are saying while studying your body language and the setting around us, and then remembering it all to be used in some kind…

Photography

3 min read

When Raw Talent Snaps You Up
When Raw Talent Snaps You Up

Apr 27

Waiting for the Carousel to stop

I feel my tongue punched down, with its flaps trying to push up on its sides, fighting silence, fighting swallowed words, fighting sarcasm at every turn. I feel my brain bubble within itself, containing the internal monologue that only I hear, that only I understand, that only I can connect…

Poetry

2 min read

Waiting for the Carousel to stop
Waiting for the Carousel to stop

Apr 17

Change: From Losing Your Virginity to Entering a Chamber of Mirrors

When I lost my virginity, I booked my first ever pap test with a woman gynecologist. The anticipation for the test was almost as thrilling as the anticipation of actually having sex. …

Gynecologist

5 min read

Change: From Losing Your Virginity to Entering a Chamber of Mirrors
Change: From Losing Your Virginity to Entering a Chamber of Mirrors

Apr 10

Frankly, My Dear, You are A Sexist

You can call me darling all you want but that won’t change the fact that you really have no idea what you are doing, and you are trying to put me in a weaker position than the one I am in, which is that of a woman. A woman with…

Sexism

4 min read

Frankly, My Dear, You are A Sexist
Frankly, My Dear, You are A Sexist
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Maria Gregoriou

Copywriter, poet, content manager, journalist. http://bit.ly/2qKTGjO

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