Author Archives: Syndicated Content

  TRAVELING SOLO In a world where we are constantly surrounded by people, pets, noise, clutter, distractions, and excess, today I would like to talk about being alone. I have just come home from ...

  Is it just me or is it really easy to have superficial relationships with people? You know, you like each other or you work together or you have been friends for a long time. Maybe at one point...

Fresh off my first, last and definitely my only Bungee Jump (I’m still nauseous!) I am excited to share with you my friend and colleague Ravi Tangri’s new podcast From Meh to Yeah! He inte...

“If we can’t be the best at it, then why are we doing it at all?” This quote is from the book Good to Great by Jim Collins and, respectfully Jim, I couldn’t disagree more. Sure...

I’ve been working on my Spanish for a few months now with the help of the Duolingo app. My favourite part about the app is the ‘Turtle Button’. When the app wants me to translate a s...

This year I am using Scrabble letters to create a word to focus on for a space of time. I place the word out on my counter so we can see it frequently, then I move it to my Scrabble board. I thought i...

Old friends, new friends. Quiet friends, loud friends. Big friends, small friends. Cue in Dr. Seuss here. We have been in our new home on Vancouver Island for seven months now – half a country a...

The Olympics were killing me. I loved watching the athletes soar through the air, twirl around on the ice (even though I felt nauseous), sweep, shoot, and complete seemingly impossible feats. But&hell...

On the same day I ran across two very different people. One told me she knows it's been a great day if she loses track of how many times she has said thank you (either in her head or out loud). If it ...

What is your relationship with time? Good, bad or indifferent? It wouldn't surprise me at all if the time bandit often has you frustrated at how quickly the hours, days, months and even years seem to ...