Author: Ray Petersen

There could be little worse than getting passed over for a promotion that you had your heart set on, and

As an educator, I’m always on the lookout for ways to stimulate my students towards higher level learning, and consequently,

Ray Petersen – petersen_ray@hotmail.com – Every society, for millennia, has looked upon itself as the one that is right in

Most of you, or most of us, don’t laugh enough, and take yourselves, or ourselves, way too seriously. Life challenges

That’s what Susan Sonntag wrote some years ago, and I like it! I’ve been fortunate, during these last ten years,

Charles Darwin once wrote, “It’s not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one

How incredible is Mother Nature? And how incredible it is that her wonders are laid bare to us every single

There is a delicious irony, isn’t there, in the absolute fact that whether the global price of oil is going

I was absolutely delighted two weeks ago to see my home country, New Zealand, seek to take a new path

I was never really a Game of Thrones fan in its earliest days, but then my daughter kept shortening our

Impulsive thoughts can be seen as a positive or a negative I guess, and a group of budding teachers and

We, the man (or woman) on the street have very little knowledge and understanding of the oil and gas industry

A student teacher, Thuraya al Abri, wrote for me last week, reflecting on the issue of teaching and parenting adolescents,