Good boundaries. I didn’t grow up with good boundaries. There are reasons for that: My son, on the other hand, has great boundaries. He has great boundaries for the same reason he’s not frightened of spiders – I raised him that way. Teaching him to have good boundaries was a deliberate act. We all want our children to have what we didn’t. By the time … Continue reading We Need Roots, Wings, and Boundaries.
Greed is the future? I’m GenX, and finding big financial success was all the rage when I was at university. Money was on almost everyone’s mind. The commerce faculties were flourishing in the nineties – people had taken all the wrong lessons from the movie, Wall Street – and many of the people I interacted with on campus had big plans to make big bucks. … Continue reading I Don’t Look Ahead – an off-the-cuff joint.
I live in British Columbia, and our motto is “Welcome to Beautiful B.C.” because we tell it like it is. The mountains, the coast, the interior, the north; the oceans, the rivers, the lakes, the islands – all of it’s fantastic. We’re spoiled for choice. It’s also large – B.C. is one-and-a-half again of Texas and nearly four times the size of Great Britain. And … Continue reading The Solo Retreat
I haven’t had a vacation I’ve not had a real vacation since before 2019. In fact, my last real vacation was my aborted attempt at a solo trip to Mazatlan. It didn’t end particularly well. There was a weekend up to Salmon Arm with my friendly acquaintances in the summer of 2022, although my memories of that one are tainted by my discovery that I … Continue reading Weekday getaways with a side of anxiety – an off-the-cuff joint.
From Famine to Feast. 