by Eva Fernandes | Jan 30, 2022 | Creativity
An old plush brown leather briefcase sat on top of our cupboards in the bedroom. As a child, I’d snap back the shiny gold buckles to find the few treasures my father had retained from his past. Inside this briefcase were two small notebooks. Thumbing through the...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Creativity
I’m eight years old. I’ve brought home a ‘Chart’ – a large piece of thick paper which has been rolled up. On this chart, I need to draw two boys running on a field. I want it to be perfect. I want it to look like the pictures I see in the books. I want it to...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Creativity
Kelly Diels, Feminist Marketing Consultant and my teacher in all things marketing, uses a tool called: This is for you. And this is not for you. It is a concept to help people categorize in their head who they are and aren’t speaking to. Ahead of time. If someone...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Creativity
“You can’t take this bus – it isn’t for tourists.” Like most travellers, I hate being called a tourist. And now – here was Maila Gurung doing the very thing…warning me about a bus only for ‘locals’. I was doing the...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Creativity
I’ve changed. Really. As an eternal optimistic optimizer, I’ve sung this weary tune for far too long. I should know better – but I still declare victories when I’m only halfway through the journey. Here’s a story of one particularly humbling moment when I was schooled...
by Eva Fernandes | Jan 29, 2022 | Creativity
Jump. Twitch. Flail. The time when I went to belly dancing class. As I grew up in the Middle East, I’ve long been enamored with belly dancing. For years, I watched with awe. My Egyptian friends naturally and rhythmically seemed to sway and shake their hips without...