So many TED talks make me chuckle and nod in agreement that I wish to express so strongly! "I agree!" I want to say. "Oh, I agree, I agree, I agree a thousand times over!" Sometimes, I think, "And I have more to add to that. Think about this, in the same context. I've felt and thought this, and this, and this!"And then I realise, sitting alone with my laptop, I'm agreeing with a screen and myself.I just listened to a TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. I had never heard of her, but now, she fills me with all the joy and empathy of a kindred spirit, with respect to so much of what she says.At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, and they talked a lot about the weather: how lovely it was that the sun had come out. This despite the fact that I lived in … [Read more...]