When my husband was recently hospitalized, I found myself staring at our increasingly wild back lawn, feeling overwhelmed by yet another task I couldn’t handle alone. That’s when I remembered the handmade flyer I’d tucked away months earlier—crafted by our 16-year-old neighbour who’d been cutting grass around the neighbourhood for five years. Something about […]
What if the key to understanding—and acting on—climate change lies not in distant data, but in our own backyards, memories, and conversations?
For a few months, I have been noodling around the concept of why (or why not) we believe or trust another person and why it has become increasingly difficult to do so. I have landed on a concept that may eventually go mainstream. I firmly believe we are currently in the midst of a ‘Trust […]
The final episode in the series: Unpacking Climate Change: The Science, the Myths, and the Urgency of Action.
I’ve been having frequent conversations lately about the word NO. And saying far too often, NO, is a complete sentence. Given that I once struggled with the concept and had to learn the hard way that saying NO is not a deal breaker, I thought I’d share some of the ideas I have learned. Saying […]
This is the third episode of the series: Unpacking Climate Change: The Science, the Myths, and the Urgency of Action.
Making money is a right we all have. We’re all taught that. And some of us even spend tons of money learning systems and processes that work for others — and yet don’t work for us. Why is that? One reason is that none of us is like the ones we’ve studied. Another reason is […]
There’s been a horrible sexual assault/sexual consent trial happening here in my country. Five young guys beginning their careers in the minor hockey leagues. Each with their own lawyer. Lots of alcohol and admissible and inadmissible detailed texts between the boys. One young woman. A police department trying to make up for a shoddy first […]
This is the second instalment in the new series: Unpacking Climate Change: The Science, the Myths, and the Urgency of Action.