I spent most of Friday and Saturday at the first Annual Catalyst MBA Career Forum, for MBA graduates. Given that part of the Ask Caroline series is about careers, and that I have been running a publishing internship program since 2002, the organisers arranged for a book-signing table for me. I had a great spot—right [...]

Just got back from reading a Halloween story to the children at Summerhill. It was really good fun! One of the mums happened to have attended the speech I gave at TAC earlier this month, and was really complimentary about it, which was lovely. Now I have to get all this green stuff off my [...]

It was a fun Girls’ Night Out last night, despite the rain (again! Recently it feels like it rains for every BAB event we have!). We were a mixture of women from Sweden, New Zealand, the UK, and Bulgaria, and ranging from less than one year to 14 years for length of time spent here. [...]

I’ve been looking at my notes for Friday’s seminar for Japanese people. This is based on a seminar I ran years ago for Japanese people who wanted to have an international-style life but couldn’t leave Japan for various reasons. Nowadays there is such a large international community here in Japan, that it is entirely possible [...]