I have been invited to submit a week’s worth of Gratitudes to Steve Foran for his company blog. Three grats per day for five days. Since my listing of Gratitudes is solidly based on the [...]
I remember June Callwood’s visit to Banff in the mid ’90’s. She was speaking at The Whyte Museum one evening and is the first public figure who impressed on me with absolute [...]
Are you using COVID-19 as a motivator to set some positive health goals? Have you started a new good habit lately? Public health experts around the world are sounding the clarion – we need to [...]
Can you identify your top ‘Character Strengths’? To be a character strength, the trait must meet criteria such as: the opposite of a negative trait; valued by society; widely [...]
I just ordered a book by Calgary author, Nell Smith. Fun fact – whenever I read the word “retire”, I replace it with “rewire”. I am excited to meet Nell Smith through [...]
American professor of Geography and Pulitzer prize winning author, Jared Diamond wrote an opinion piece in last weekend’s Globe and Mail, suggesting that Americans use July 4, 2020 as a [...]
Image credit: “Hands Up for Peace!” mural in St. Louis, Missouri. Credit: Paul Sableman, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) – image taken from the internet. On June 6, I attended the Black [...]
Note: The time has been changed to 11AM Thursdays for The (Re)Connection Series. Psychologist, gratitude researcher and author Robert Emmons states, “The act of writing your blessings [...]
I am so grateful for grassroots leadership that is showing up across the country. Leadership is demonstrated when someone sees something that needs changing – and they find a way to take [...]
It’s hard. Actually, it’s really hard to have been in a position where I knew I could help leverage resources into our community and now to be sitting as a spectator during this [...]
