At Your Age
Dear Jessica Brennan, When I was thirteen I wanted to go on a two week wilderness canoeing trip with a few chaperones and lots of kids who were older teenagers. …
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Sitting in Suffering
Dear Jessica Brennan, When your grandma, my mum, was dying a little over a year ago, I spent a lot of time sitting. Sitting by her bedside, quietly listening to …
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You’re On Mute
Dear Jessica Brennan, During the isolation and working-from-home that many of us have experienced this year, I, like most of the working world have spent hundreds of hours on hundreds …
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A Friend in Every Decade
Dear Jessica Brennan, If you want the answer to a complex question, ask a six-year old. They will simplify the most complicated issue down to basic steps like, “Maybe you …
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Hopeless by Choice
Dear Jessica Brennan, I have been heard from time to time (daily) telling Dad that he’s hopeless. It doesn’t bother him, because for the most part he is hopeless by …
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Distrust
Dear Jessica Brennan, In a time long ago, called 2012, being a perennially slow learner, I made a conscious decision to disregard what my gut was telling me about a …
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Don’t Be Good At It
Dear Jessica Brennan, I have often fallen into the trap of not wanting to be seen doing anything until I have mastered it. As a child, I hated track and …
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Trimming the Great to Get to the Better
Dear Jessica Brennan, Recently I agreed to create a video for our family business Jeans ‘n Classics. It came about like this: Dad: Would you like another glass of wine? …
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Finding Your One True Passion
Dear Jessica Brennan, I have spent a lot of time trying to find the one-thing I am meant to be. That one passion that is mine to follow. I often …
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The Annihilation of our 2020 Vision
Dear Jessica Brennan, The year 2020 approached like an endless trip to the eye doctor. You know the drill. You put your chin in the leather rest and the doctor …
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