Emma McGeorge
Press Service International
Emma is an Italian-South African with a New Zealand passport and an international heart. She spent years training student choirs and co-running a puppeteering business, before working for a humanitarian organisation in New Zealand (7 years) and Papua New Guinea (3 years). Currently a nomad living between various countries and towns, Emma's deep joy is in writing, music, cooking up an Italian storm, and taking time to listen to people’s stories.
Read Emma's creative expressions at http://www.girlkaleidoscope.wordpress.com or https://pngponderings.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/finding-the-beauty/
Emma’s previous articles may be viewed at www.pressserviceinternational.org/emma-mcgeorge.html
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Life is just a broken tea bag
Sometimes life is just a broken tea bag.
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Ignorance, bliss and “sawubona”
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Why women are angry (despite what Craig says)
The fact that the phrase ‘gender wage gap’ is still relevant in 2021 baffles me.It baffles every woman who is forced to ...
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No one cares what you believe; they care how you believe it
The day we Aucklanders entered our seventh week of Covid-induced lockdown, I sat by a lake to nurse a coffee and my tired thoughts under the pretty Spring sky.
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Narcissism, altruism and other church-isms
The Christian church is a bit of a controversial space.
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Anger unchained: Why we can’t afford to ignore it anymore
Anger is a human emotion as basic as happiness and sadness, anxiety and excitement.
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One more dawn that I have claimed out of a broken night
For a long time now I have walked around with a quiet pocket of grief.
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Mental Health and why you should care
Mental Health: Here’s a five-minute overview. Just kidding – there’s no way I could cram into five minutes the complexities, depths and ever-evolving enlightenments of mental health.
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The multigenerational blame game
Resilience is something I write about a lot.
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On missions: Why the price is too high and the accountability is too low
While the missionary is seen as a fairly standard church ornament, most of us never see the chronic stress of the mission field.