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March 30, 2021March 30, 2021Blog

There’s a hole in the bucket dear Liza: Why technology alone can’t save us from ourselves

I recently watched a thought-provoking 2020 TED Talk called “The Promise of Quantum Computers”. The speaker, Matt Langione, a marketer of research-intensive, […]

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021Blog

The Great Reset – MAKE IT PERSONAL

In November 2020—as the second Covid wave was swelling in Canada—I had an enlightening phone conversation with my sister who expressed keen […]

March 29, 2021March 30, 2021Blog

So, you’re not feeling appreciated or recognized

How is it that a single sentence in a book about a group of dogs granted human consciousness and language by a […]

March 29, 2021March 30, 2021Blog

Sudoku: the game of life

I swear it was Sudoku that held me together mentally and emotionally at a time when I was incredibly fragile. Literally, it […]

December 4, 2020December 17, 2020Blog

Phantom Emotion Syndrome: messages from a good ghost

I’ve been haunted by phantoms three times quite recently. They weren’t horror-movie ghosts. They weren’t figments of my imagination. They were emotions […]

December 4, 2020December 17, 2020Blog

Standing on the fringe: no longer a place of not belonging

I’m standing with my toes curling into the now cold sand. Stars are multiplying in the deepening dusk. Behind me, small waves […]

December 4, 2020February 10, 2021Blog

Stop acting your age

One of the most harmful admonishments has to be: “Act your age!”  Who, exactly, gets to say how anyone is supposed to […]

December 1, 2020February 3, 2021Blog

Friends: mirrors and shadows

Dedicated to my Deerhurst friends. It’s taken me a lot of years to appreciate the adage: a friend is your mirror and […]

December 1, 2020January 27, 2021Blog

Saving Cece

Cece, short for Cecilia, is my granddaughter, two years old at the time of this writing. She’s the most beautiful, intelligent, disarming […]

November 27, 2020December 17, 2020Blog

A happy kind of sadness

Standing on the outfitters’ dock and looking back across Kawawaymog Lake and the autumn-coloured hills beyond, I was overtaken by melancholy. Even […]

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