Dementia is obviously a horrible, terrible progressive disease as someone you love goes from very basic memory errors – forgetting names, where they parked the car, etc. – to being incapable of speech, movement, feeding themselves. As mom has progressed through these various stages, it’s been helpful to try to think of the good things […]
This is a post that’s five (or maybe even ten or fifteen?) years in the making. When I started at RPL fifteen years ago, I was an extremely unique position in the HR Unit called “Organization Development Specialist” with responsibility for staff training and development, change management initiatives, working on the nebulous “organizational culture” among […]
I posted on Thursday about my high school prom. As we prepare for Pace’s this year (uhm, buy your flowers and plants here!) I sometimes wish I could go back and tell that grey-suited, clean-cut young man that the future was going to be a bit more outlandish!
Real “circle of life” shit that the classmate I did the Grand March with during our high school graduation (not my prom date – this was when we marched in alphabetically by name which is why there are two guys – Hammond & Hanley – with one girl – Kalk – since guys outnumbered girls […]
It’s been a quiet couple weeks with us on holidays and then me busy with a conference for most of last week but time to get back to blogging. And I’ve got a perfect video for Music Monday falling on St. Patrick’s Day – a montage of pics I made against two Celtic-Canadian songs from […]
Shea and I have done three or four day trips to Isla Mujeres when we’ve stayed at all-inclusives in the Cancun area over the years. And every time, we come home and say “That was the best part of our trip – we should stay there for our whole trip sometime!” Isla Mujeres is a […]
We’ll be visiting Isla Mujeres from March 2 to 9 and this will be the first time we haven’t stayed at an all-inclusive in all our various trips to Mexico/Cuba/Dominican Republic over the past 25 years. One thing we might do is take a boat trip to an ecologically protected, undeveloped island…
