Grateful for August 

True story. I don’t like the month of August. Mainly because it’s a summer month and I am not a fan of summer. Meeting Authrine remains one of the greatest things to happen to me in my life and marrying her was also a remarkable decision. In doing so it so happened that August would […]

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Cutbacks to Go Forward 

When the financial crisis hit, talk of austerity and cutbacks were not embraced with joy. Especially when certain people suffered in particular where others did not appear to suffer that much at all. Almost a decade since it hit and there is little indication that what was done was fair, equitable and just. Understandably that […]

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Living and Learning 

Communication goes a long way to getting things done. Recently I had two conversations that startled me. The first was going very well until we hit a point of contention. We don’t usually disagree, but we certainly did then. No vociferous argument took place, but the nature of contention was significant. Yet we ended that […]

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