Workplace Mental Health: Please share this video
May 3 – 9, 2010 is Mental Health Week. Take care of yourself, and each other.
Life
Happy April Fool’s Day, Tweeps!
April Fool’s Day and Twitter were made for each other, don’t you think? Sharing-oriented messages with a shortened URL courtesy of bit.ly or some other tool? It’s the perfect combination of trust, expectation of useful content, and an obscured link. The perfect storm. That was my thinking at least. For the last couple of weeks [...]
Why did you steal my recycling bin?
You must have noticed that it wasn’t yours. I mean, for one thing, mine was taller. Much taller. It probably had 30% more capacity than your typical bin. That, and it was obviously newer and much nicer than your UV-faded, weather-beaten, run-over-by-the-car experiment in plastic durability. I guess I’ve answered my own question. I suppose you [...]
On Parental Leave
When my wife became pregnant with our third child, I’d just ‘officially’ graduated with my Master’s degree and was working on casual contract for the Government of Canada. A few months later, I became a permanent (‘indeterminate’) and among the benefits I was eligible to receive was Parental Leave Without Pay. Admittedly, this sounds like [...]
We Love You Murphy (1999-2009)
Murphy was born on Thursday Sept 23, 1999 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, and on died Wednesday March 4, 2009, (9 AM EST) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In her early life, Murphy was a therapy dog, providing company to the ill and elderly. However, due to an unfortunate tendency to chew on medical tubes, she was [...]
Do-It-Yourself Degree Milling for Fun and… well, Just Fun
When I was younger, I liked to hang my degrees up in my office. I suppose that until I had a well established sense of identity and self worth, those framed bit of paper helped me feel like I belonged in the world of professionals. While they still have some importance to me—primarily as legal [...]
Globalization and The Village Idiot
In this era, where culture is as far reaching as economy, the need for a public figure whom nearly everyone can look upon and feel superior to is as crucial now as it ever has been. Thank you Paris Hilton.
Election 2004: Choose A or a
Americans are a strange breed. Paradoxical. I’m quite amused as I watch the growing fervour on television concerning the race for the Democratic Presidential candidacy, and the inevitable “Dubyah vs. Someone” race for the White House. Where’s the excitement? For a nation that would riot in the streets if it was forced to endure the [...]
the gift
embracing the gift that is yours and is mine through the turning of leaves and passing of time a life lived as one for the days yet to come memories beloved of a journey sublime though the days ahead dwindle and days behind grow what God has decreed time alone can not slow love endures [...]
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