Michelangelo is famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but as an artist, the medium he truly loved to work in was not…
Long long ago, I worked in a children’s mental health facility. On one occasion, I was temporarily helping out in the pre-school classroom. The woman…
Jimmy Stewart starred in a lovely, rather poignant 1950 movie in which Stewart’s character had an imaginary friend named Harvey. Wikipedia’s description of the movie…
A favourite trick of proof readers is to read text from the bottom up to the top. You are more likely to catch an error…
I had the pleasure this past week of attending a fundraiser for WAYS, Western Ontario Youth Services. It was a brilliant idea to copy the…
Every once in a while you need to go back to the proverbial drawing board — meaning, re-evaluate your best laid plans. Sometimes a business…
Johnny Carson. Apparently, he was quite a guy. I can honestly say I rarely watched his show, but I did catch it once, circa 1976,…
A French professor I once had was born and raised in France. He was a charming and loquacious soul who liked to tell stories about…
A recent article circulating social media sites was in regard to a man who complained of having an ‘ear worm’ for years on end… ‘Earworms’;…
It really does not matter what the source of your frustration is, being frustrated takes an incredible amount of energy. Frustration rarely ever helps to…