D.A.R.E.

D.A.R.E.

When I was in grade eleven I got in trouble with the school administration team. This was weeks before I was actually suspended for telling my marketing teacher to have sexual relations with some goats and sheep. In case you are wondering, back in those days you would...
spelling mistakes

spelling mistakes

It is time to come clean and declare that I have cut some corners in my life. Spelling seems to be at the heart of it. On the other hand, I have mastered grammar in a very unconventional matter, not by learning how it works, but by reading tons and tons of great...
purposeful conversations

purposeful conversations

We all fill our day with copious amounts of idle chatter and there is nothing wrong with idle chatter either. We all need it and we like it. We like it and it makes us beautifully human and builds strong bonds with one another. Purposeful conversations however, are...
a kind word for strangers

a kind word for strangers

There is a great value in the art of living but we need to engage a little more openly in our search for meaning, because there are a lot of lost and hurting souls that don’t see the point of trying. It is for them that we cannot hide. It is for them that we need to...
not for me

not for me

  Sometimes what we learn as children doesn’t serve us well in adulthood. There are many things that do but I don’t think any of us were sufficiently encouraged to say no. Our parents wanted our obedience, for obvious reason, but while we were kept safe, we overlooked...
a timid heart

a timid heart

Toastmasters Speech delivered on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018. “A timid heart”.   A Timid Heart There are many styles of communication and as speakers we weave in and out of them depending on what we want to accomplish. Sometimes we become very direct. Our...