Last night I attended a lecture at The Hamilton Spectator with my daughter Charae. She was there to take notes for a school newspaper article (and to keep her dad company). The lecture featured the results of Evelyn Forget … Continue reading →

  My husband is notoriously indecisive. He used to serve on the board of Universities’ Model Parliament. Every couple of months they’d meet at a local eatery where the business of the meeting remained off the table until the group … Continue reading →

Last week I trundled across a 2002 article in, of all places, The Journal of Biblical Counseling that takes a good critical look at the evangelical blockbuster, The Five Love Languages. The article: Love speaks many languages fluently. In sum, … Continue reading →

  Many hands make light work. The well-known Chinese proverb is often true and has been given a contemporary twist with the advent of many-to-many communication tools that are ubiquitous today. A valuable overview of the current state of doing … Continue reading →

  Last week in the New York Times, Russell Shorto asked, “How Christian Were the Founders?” It has to do with the battle over what gets taught in the public schools in the United States—and where that battle is rooted. … Continue reading →

People with lots of ideas are often labelled as being heavy on vision but light on ground-level plowing. The social entrepreneurship movement is gaining credibility because it has become a fertile soil where vision and action meet. It has been … Continue reading →

  His name is Remi, we are having a love affair, and my spouse knows about it. He is a Remington Portable. A archetypal typewriter manufactured in the mid-1930s. His ruddy grey body sits squarely in the centre of my … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since I was on the dating market, having been married for three-and-a-half years now. But I still remember the crushing blow of the well-crafted, light, funny email, only to receive a one-line answer. So, apparently, did … Continue reading →

I’ve been hunting for wow-factor organizational practices since 1996. That was the year I was elected to a senior executive board tasked with mapping out a ten-year plan for 110 non-profits. Some of my fellow members thought that part of … Continue reading →

  Though the opening ceremonies are still more than a week away (February 12 at 5 PM PST) Olympic fever has descended upon Vancouver, for good or for bad. The good: A thrilling cultural line-up including the inaugural show, The … Continue reading →