Collaboration
Collaboration Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. —Henry Ford I’...
Collaboration Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. —Henry Ford I’...
Incite Lately, I’ve been thinking about a man I worked with many years ago. Back then I used to wander a prison cellblock. J...
Seven Word Autobiography This week we had the Whistler Writers Group annual general meeting. I try not to make this too form...
Who Am I? You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You...
Zen and Anger Anyone can become angry?that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right...
The Speech I Would Have Given The Whistler Excellence Awards dinner was held this week. The event honours excellence in the ...
Dad And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. Homer _ _ He set out to do better by his children than his own f...
From Where You Write “Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors, but today we kneel only to the truth.” K...
Knowing and Doing the Right Thing There is a website entitled, Ancient Greek Battles which catalogues ageless Sparta...
No Guts, No Glory It’s true. I’m anxious. I know it doesn’t show. I’m standing tall, moving through the gathering, stoppin...
No Guts, No Glory It’s true. I’m anxious. I know it doesn’t show. I’m standing tall, moving through the gathering, stoppin...
Brittle When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it c...
He Doth Protest Too Much Late last month the Supreme Court of Canada rejected the Harper government’s proposal fo...
Teachers The task of the educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C.S. Lewis As a child I was a...
Immortality Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are...
Lucky by Kathryn Para Lucky explores the impact of war on those who bring it into our living rooms – the foreign corresponde...
Crimea My sister has always been stronger than me. I’m the oldest, but she got the take-no-prisoners gene. Her stu...
Protest To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards of men (and women – I’ve added this bit be...
Spreadsheet My brain used to be a quiet place where I could explore bold ideas while keeping them safe from prying eyes. Whe...
Schoolyard Antics I would rather be a little nobody, than an evil somebody. Abraham Lincoln You see these people everywh...
Well Intentioned Advice I’ve been in the advice business for a very long time. As a kid, other kids sought my help about ...
Why We Look Fifteen years ago we lived in a small village in England frequented by tourists and vacationers. Peopl...
The Bridge Cabin Can you picture it? Eight women in a room. Okay, I see your grin and know what you’re thinking. No, th...
Getting Older No one longs to live more than someone growing old - Sophocles I have a birthday coming up in the next fe...