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When Princes aren’t Charming (and Other Shocking Tales)
And why every day should be International Women’s Day
A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change. So let’s all choose to challenge. ~ 2021 International Women’s Day
As a man who took his life’s inspiration from two powerful women, it saddens me that there is still a need to set out a day to make everyone think about inequality. But there is.
March 8th is International Women’s Day and has been since 1911.
Paris is always a good idea… well, it started out that way
I wasn’t very aware of gender inequality in my life and didn’t really put much mind to it until a day in 2011 when my wife, Lyn, and I flew my mother-in-law, Sarah, to Paris and met her at the St Georges Cinq hotel. I had hired a rooftop suite for a week as a birthday surprise for her.
She’d never stayed in a place like that and was elated. It’s one of the world’s top hotels (a week there cost me over $25,000) and definitely a place to put on your Intentions list.
In the lobby, they have the most magnificent display of orchids. It’s changed overnight every single night so that when one arrives refreshed from sleep the next morning, it’s…
