IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
It makes the heart ache
Today was my first day back at work and this is one of the first things I read... ???"A World Bank report found that gender violence was the cause of more ill-health among women and girls than malaria and traffic accidents combined. "Another WHO report showed that, in...
Just do one small thing
A couple of people have sent me links to some videos of very cool rube goldbergs lately. (You know the game Mousetrap? That's a small version of a rube goldberg.) I love rube goldbergs for the lovely "non-sensical fun" of them. Someone spent all of this time,...
Tender, but healing
I've been feeling a little tender these past few days. In more ways than one. After a surprisingly quick healing process the first week after surgery, I was expecting to stay on the same trajectory, but, sadly, that didn't happen. I guess I hit a plateau. I can't say...
Doin’ the ol’ flip-flop
Flip... I believe I am a good writer and that I have a lot to offer. This blog is an interesting place for people to hang out.Flop... I am convinced I'm wasting my time and should just step aside and let the REAL writers do their thing. This blog is a boring waste of...
Making the world a better place
If you hang out with me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have already seen this video, but I thought I'd share it here anyway. At a recent staff retreat, I asked all of our staff to answer one simple question... "How can we make the world a better place?" We all put...
What do you see when you close your eyes and daydream?
Not long ago, I wrote about how Maddie loves to build magical worlds under the dining room table. Recently I found her there, lying on her back, staring up at the bottom of the table. When I asked her what she was doing, she said "oh, I'm daydreaming. I have to do it...
Seeing yourself through someone else’s eyes
I always enjoy it when I'm doing public speaking and I get introduced by someone who knows me fairly well. You find out new things about who you are when you hear yourself described by someone else. The same is true when someone writes an article about you. My friend...
What I’m looking forward to – the Nip/Tuck edition
It's been just over a week since surgery, and I am feeling remarkably good. Still a little tender, and I tire easily, so I can't do much yet, but I am in good spirits and can at least leave the house now and then. On doctor's orders, I'll be taking another week off...
What the river taught me
This morning I went to see the river. I'd barely left the house all week and needed to sit with Mother Nature for awhile. Water calls me. Always. This time it wasn't the mighty Red River that flows close to my house. It was the smaller Seine a little further away. A...
Sometimes you have to be willing to spin a cocoon.
I'm writing this from my little cocoon on the couch. The big picture window lets me catch glimpses of the outside world, but until I am sufficiently healed from my breast reduction surgery, I remain mostly indoors, in this position, with a few good wisdom books, some...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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