Magic Minute An Odd Angry Scot By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // “Hey, Mum! An angry Scotsman smashed Laurie’s new fishing rod over his knee because we got our line tangled with his off the pier!” (I later learned my two brothers had broken it in half, hitting a fence while swatting butterflies!) But at […]
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Magic Minute Reluctant Stand In By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever been dragooned into a short-term stand-in for something you weren’t that comfortable with? Well, this happened to me with a group of old guys as organizer of their monthly men’s dinner. But my mind soon changed for among these oldies were many interesting
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Magic Minute Those Passionate Italians By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever noticed how Italians experience everything they’re involved in with an infectious passion! Well, having lived with them and studied their language for years I’m getting to understand this. I was once stuck in an endless traffic jam trying to reach a remote village
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Magic Minute Sucked Right In By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // When I was a young, naive telegram boy, a scruffy looking guy sidled up to me and surreptitiously flashed a great wad of 20 pound notes. On reflection, it was probably just one note wrapped around something. Anyway, he furtively whispered, “Norval Boy in
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Magic Minute All That Glitters By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Ever been enticed by something irresistibly beautiful? I was around 8 years old and totally entranced by a large golden orange fish casually swimming in a pond as part of the Kannonook Creek, recently flushed and replenished by a massive pump from Port Philip
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Quote An Insatiable Curiosity By Laurie Smale QUOTE // “An insatiable curiosity for things you don’t know, broadens the mind and keeps it switched on” Laurie Smale, Master Speaking Coach, Speaker and Author – How to take the Panic out of Public Speaking 🎤 #lauriesmalequotes #curiosity #broadensthemind Shared online: Archive.org Facebook Page Facebook Profile Google
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Magic Minute Should Have Listened By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Heavy rains the night before had the creek running higher than usual. “Should be all right,” Johan thought. “I’ve crossed this ford before and I know where the rocks are.” Our bike group leader saw it differently. “Better play it safe and walk across,
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Magic Minute Misunderstanding By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // I just got on a tram when a smartly dressed young lady said, “Are you Laurie Smale?” “Yeah, that’s me.” “Well, I’m Susan Grimshaw and I was very jealous of you in grades five and six for you continuously out-shone me with Reading Writing and anything
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Magic Minute Race of Survival By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // The ominous clatter of a German half-track echoed through the trees. “They’re right behind me!” Thought seventeen-year-old Lino, hurtling around a bend on his racing bike in the Piedmont foothills. “Better bury myself and my bike in the scrub!” He thought heading for the
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Magic Minute Don’t Push Your Luck! By Laurie Smale MAGIC MINUTE // Mushrooming with my brothers, we came across a magnificent but very deadly Copperhead snake curled up in the sun, his body nearly as thick as my 9-year-old legs. Mesmerized by the golden glow of his burnished body, I did the dumbest thing imaginable.
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