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Stranger than Fiction
It took knowledge of his imminent death to shake Harold Crick out of his obsessive need to quantify every aspect of his life. Harold is the main character in, “Stranger than Fiction” a movie I...
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Spring Morning
I needed both of the quilts that my daughters made for me in order to sit out back on the deck this morning. It is too cold otherwise. Spring brings that calm after the storm and promises that summer...
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Dangers of Free WiFi
At a truck stop, or rather an EnRoute, a name given to the stops on the 401 highway likely because it has similar meanings in both English and French, I was trying to log onto the “free” WiFi as I...
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The Art of Decision Making
As she got into the car, her entire face lit up. As a mom, I had seen this before and knew that she loved what she saw and how she felt sitting in the car. Her brain, the left side of her brain, that...
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The Cost of Influence
Anthony Jenkins/Globe and Mail Nigel Wright took one for the team. Losing Duffy was just too big of a risk to take. Action was swift. There was a deadline, you see. An audit of Duffy’s expenses showed...
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Highway Etiquette–Slower Traffic Keep Right
If you normally find yourself in bumper to bumper traffic on one of the four series highways such as the 400, 401, 403 or any other divided, closed access highway, I’m sure you’ll agree that there...
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Happy My Birthday
It’s apropos that my 100th blog on this site is being written on my birthday, my fifty-first birthday at that, which means that even if I live to be 100 I am officially over the hill. It should make...
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New Friends
I’m in my office again. We’ve had hot sunny weather for most of July and I’m taking this cool, cloudy day as an opportunity to sit at my computer. The rose of sharon is now in full bloom and bits of...
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Ceiling Tiles
I thought that an old newspaper would be the best choice for reading material, but as I tried to find a comfortable way to hold it above my head, restricted by the bars on the bed, I realized I may...
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Narcissism–Scenes From the Front Line — The Fax
My commute into work was unsustainable. I was driving almost 70 km (40 miles) into a large city. This particular highway would come to a complete stop if one drop of rain, or heaven forbid, a...
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Students Return
The traffic had come to a complete stop. There were about 38 students crossing the four lane road at a diagonal about half a block from the intersection. It was not possible to tell when they would...
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Cell Phone Woes
All forms of media were flooded with advertisements from Bell and Rogers recently. Changes in the law had made it possible for foreign owned cellular companies to move into the Canadian market. Our...
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Three and a Half Hours
Three and a half hours to go. Originally, it seemed like it was a long way away. I would never had considered it if I hadn’t had seven weeks to prepare. After the date got changed, I had another two...
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Writing About Writing
I realized in an inside-out way that I was thinking about writing about writing and it seemed so peculiar and strange. I often just “feel” like capturing a moment, the way that I’m feeling at the time...
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More Interconnectedness
Hello Everyone I opened a this new webpage back in April of this year. Yes, just one webpage. I am now re-connecting it to the other social media sites that I have on-line. This post serves three...
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My Book is Almost Done
I am putting the final touches on my latest book, “The Narcissist Survival Guide”. There are so many details to attend to!! I have taken all of my experience dealing with narcissists, coaching people...
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The Narcissist Survival Guide
Do you feel like you are becoming forgetful? Do you feel like you may be losing your mind? Are you confused about what is going on? You may have a narcissist in your life… The word narcissism is being...
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My Mother was a Narcissist
I was sitting in front of my computer at work. My personal email was open. I forget what I was about to do, when it happened. I had recently read a book, “When will I Be Enough” and in it I found a...
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Dusting Off Memories
My desire to keep my blog fresh and to add new material is actually turning out to be therapeutic. I know that it has been said before, but it is forcing me to revisit a lot of the bad times in my...
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The Cavity, Part Two
I experienced a deeper level of understanding about the discovery of a large black cavity between my two front teeth. I remembered the pain, the loneliness and the horror at finding this corrosion...
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