The boss appeared at my office door and said we needed to talk. I followed him into a small boardroom, we sat down, and then he proceeded to tell me I no longer had a job. One of the seventeen people laid off that fateful day. April 2, 1996. Hard to believe it was eighteen […]
There has been lots of on-line chatter about Amtrak adding a Writers Residency program on their trains. Free trips to authors working on manuscripts. I jumped on the bandwagon and send out little notes to Via Rail and Rocky Mountaineer in hopes these two Canadian companies would follow suit. Then I took a reality check. […]
This week, a prompt for our writing group asked, “Do you sweat the small stuff?” My answer was that I no longer wanted to sweat the small stuff; I’m much more interested in the big picture. I default to the broad view and even more so, the important ideas. We all wondered if part of […]
The phone rang, I recognized the name so even though it was late I picked up. This was a very good decision. “What’s up?” “I was just telling a friend how much you had helped me today and I thought the best thing to do was to stop talking to her and to tell you. […]
Silent contemplation
Is your glass half-empty or half-full? The answer might be the most telling in regards to a well lived life… or not. I find people with positive attitudes are happy no matter what is happening. Oh sure, they have bad days, sad days, and even mad days. But in the end, no matter what is […]
I’ve been watching the Olympics. And I’ve been wearing my “blue jacket” from our 2010 Winter Olympics here in Vancouver. I loved being a volunteer and was thrilled to work on the opening and closing ceremonies. My job was to be a “floater” and when I arrived for my volunteer shift I was sent to […]
I lost my favourite pair of shoes this week. This makes me sad. I loved those shoes. They were only part of the reason I missed posting my blog this week. The other was a colonoscopy. Or to be more exact, what happened three hours after the procedure. You hear stories about how the prep […]
The world was so different back then. We didn’t talk about these things except in hollow whispers. Children held no power. What did we know? Who had our backs? For the last few days I watched, read, and listened to the storm surrounding Dylan Farrow and Woody Allen with a weird sense of wonder and […]
I love serendipity. I love those little connecting moments. Some people believe you are in a state of heightened awareness when you start to notice these things. Like when you first fall in love with someone… you marvel at how many things you have in common, how it all seems like fate… how it was […]
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