Between routine doctor’s appointments, preparations for the launch of the Woodstock Chapter of the Public Speakers Association, a Toastmasters contest next week and other offline…
The theme for my posts this month is Overcoming Adversity. From even the slightest exposure to the media, old or new, it is obvious…
A column in the National Post by Anne Applebaum writing from Poland on the similarities between the situation in Poland in 1939 and that in…
In the previous post, I suggested that reserves of resilience have declined as it has become easier to survive in modern societies. Since writing…
As a baby boomer it is too easy to fall into the “when I was young….” trap and condemn anything I don’t like as…
This post is a strange mixture of topics, but they hang together by a common thread of memories. Read on and you will discover the…
There is more than enough bad news to go around as we approach the end of a Northern Hemisphere summer. The relentless attacks on…
On Wednesday, I spent the day at the Summer Networking Bash in Toronto to help man the Public Speakers Association table. It was an…
Thanks to a Bell technician fixing a problem on a cable on Saturday, we now have consistent telephone and Internet service. It seems it…
This will be another shorter post as despite several visits from technicians, my internet and phone services are still intermittent. A big thank you to…