There has been a fair amount of chatter in the media recently about a Hamilton, Ontario family who has filed a human right’s complaint against their daughter’s school. You can read about it here and here. The six year…
Years ago, I worked for a big software company. I was part of a department that provided a service to our office’s 900+ employees. I talked to many, many employees regularly. One day, I was talking to a particularly difficult…
Day 7 of a blog post every (week)day. Sixth actual post. It’s rather ironic that the theme for NaBloPoMo January 2014 is pressure. And in committing to do this, I have put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I,…
This post is neither wordless nor is it Wednesday but I had intended on posting it yesterday so I’m still just going to go with it. I spent most of yesterday in bed with a fever. When I was lying…
Last October, our four kids participated in Scout Apple Day. We stood outside a local mall, on a cold, rainy day, and tried to sell apples seek donations for Scouts. Our particular location was a really tough sell. Not all…
“Do you have a tendency to procrastinate, or do you like checking things off your to-do list?” Both. I don’t think these things are mutually exclusive. I can be completely gung-ho about a project. In fact, sometimes I am so singularly…
A couple of months ago, I sat around a table with Kelly Drennan, the founding executive director of Fashion Takes Action (FTA), and several of the members of FTA’s Board of Directors. I sat there, generally quiet, listening intently. I…
As part of my commitment to more blogging this year, I’ve been thinking about participating in the January 2014 NaBloPoMo: write a blog post every day for the month of January. Every day. There are lots of things I do…
As I always do around this time of year, I’ve been thinking about goals. It seemed prudent to go back and look at the more or less resolutions I made a couple of years ago and think about what I’d…