A senior manager recently said “I don’t want to say the word ‘but’ because everyone knows that when you say ‘but’, the next thing you say is going to be negative or bad news.” She then went on to say “However…” to speak against something someone had done that had taken a huge amount of […]
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…
