Waiting to be Wronged

Years ago, when I started making the shift to shaping a career rather than just holding a job, circumstance brought me into dream team, and a dream opportunity, that I never would have imagined just 2 months prior. We were charged with delivering a critical project that absolutely had to be a success. To make sure that happened, we were brought together under the leadership of a very senior member of management,...

Friendships and Heartbreak

It’s been a trying week. Beyond trying… It’s been an emotionally exhausting week. Two of my dearest friends are separating. And because this is their story I will not dwell on it. But I will say that it’s made me think so much. I’ve been listening to both sides for months. My heart has hurt for everyone involved but I have always felt there was hope and there is still love. I hope that...

Through the looking glass…

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, an amazing mother and a close friend for way too many years to count. After many years of us girlfriends being inseparable, she’s ended up migrating to another country and starting her family far away from home. We keep in touch via Facebook and Skype and email. Thank God for the wonders of technology! We’ve been able to video conference and see pregnant...

What are we doing here?

What is it that we do here every day, or week, or whatever frequency you want to use to measure. We sit at our laptops and pound out some words on a keyboard, and sit back and read. Seems simple enough. Kinda boring though. Why’d you want to do that every day? I’m not sure I can answer that even for myself. But I do know I laugh my butt off at some of my more blessed-in-the-comedy-department peers. And...

Bitter disappointment

I have this friend. Let’s call her Natasha. We worked together and became fast friends. We both like to laugh, and have the same sense of humour. She’s a little younger, and little more dramatic, and so much fun. We have children around the same age, and the families got so close, they actually thought they were cousins. Which we thought so cute. When she was pregnant with her last baby, she left the...

So much to tell you!

I’ve been away for a few days, but I have been so busy with Little Miss and with the boys getting ready for end-of-term tests that I didn’t make the time to post. I have been busy squeezing in some reading of your blogs, but I haven’t always been able to comment. Everything should sort itself back out this week though! Since I have so many things I want to share with you, I thought I’d just...

Man in the Middle

I’m a communication freak. I look around and see so many escalations that really come out of simple communication missteps. I try to avoid them myself but you know, sometimes it’s easier said than done. There’s an interesting scenario I see over and over though. It’s the triangle expectation. You see it a lot with teenagers, and as a matter of fact the person who first brought it to my...