aMBER ALERt: gETTINg ATtenTiON

Last Saturday, an Amber alert was issued in my province for a missing 4 year old boy that had been abducted within the hour of the alert. Gut wrenchingly difficult as it was to read the text broadcast, the hope of finding this little one unharmed far...

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Apr 02, 2022
Great ideas are our own ideas!

Last weekend I did my Level 1 coaching certification in a 3 day intensive. It was brutal and I am aware of just how much cramming information like that doesn't necessarily work to become well educated. However, with my desire to expand my repertoire...

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Mar 26, 2022
Being wrong to be be right

I love to be right. L-O-V-E it. But I have come to observe that my rightness makes others feel wrong and that creates division, anger, frustration and hurt. All at the hands of. . .me, even when I never intended to provoke them. (Not good stakeholder...

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Mar 12, 2022
Using your expertise during a crisis

I recognize that a global pandemic and the threat of a world war is seen as a golden opportunity for many businesses to take advantage and make a profit. In the early days of Covid-19, we saw everyone making and selling masks. Heck, I have a friend i...

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Mar 12, 2022
Keep Calm and . . . what?!?

,This famously used poster from WW II Britain now stands as a piece of history that never actually happened. It's an example of the phenomenon given a definition by Douglas Coupland in 1991: “legislated nostalgia”, that is, “to force a body of p...

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Mar 05, 2022
A Valentine reflection on life, love and other mysteries

Happy Saturday, ,This coming Monday is Valentines Day. This day is fraught with danger for some as it is often referred to as Single Awareness Day or SAD. In my own life I have spent most Valentine's Days as a partnered, cisgender female. What this h...

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Feb 12, 2022
Words from the spouse who's not the extrovert

,Last week I shared an epic scavenger hunt I planned with my friends for my husband's 50th b-day. On the other end of that event, I can say that it taxed my abilities to use technology and remain calm. I used Instagram to communicate clues for the hu...

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Feb 05, 2022
Words from the spouse who's not the extrovert

,Yesterday, my spouse turned 50 and he thinks the lovely family dinner we had last night was his birthday celebration. Boy, oh boy, did he get that wrong. What you need to know about my spouse is that they're the extrovert in our union. Common a...

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Jan 29, 2022