This Wednesday, as you take a break from a busy day and look at the Hump Day Nudge, I want you to focus on the love in this video, shown in obvious ways by a teacher to his students, a father to his son, and a son to his father. Two things stand out …
Women burning clean anger
It breaks my heart when women are so nice that they don’t tell their partners or their friends or their kids when they are mad. It frustrates me when women: suppress what they want to have happen pretend it didn’t really hurt all that much or stop themselves from expressing a different opinion on the …
Gardens of Memories
I took a Junior Tribe Member out for lunch today…as I have done on their birthdays from the time they were in preschool. We go to the restaurant of their choice…many years it was at McDonald’s or Dairy Queen, then later, out for pizza, and lately the choice has been Cora’s. Lunchtime at school is …
Silly Fun
We had pie for lunch today. Not for dessert. For lunch. Today is International Pi(e) Day. At Bergen and Associates, we’re not shy about finding things to celebrate…we love to create joy…and Del, who came in for a half day today, made sure we celebrated in style. Lemon meringue pie. YUM! The pie was seriously awesome. …
Hump Day Nudge–Triumph Against All Odds
In our office we have a calendar that gives advice from nature. It’s cute and we like it, and creates some interesting and casual conversation as folks are nervously waiting for a session to start. I saw this video that reminded me of that calendar. I love a story where a water buffalo gets attached …
The unspeakable loss that must be spoken
My nephew’s best friend ended his life last week. The fellow he travelled Europe with. They were in a band together. Sometimes, they talked long into the night. They understood each other like no one else. They ate pizza. They played video games. They went skating. They hung out. They did normal stuff that young …
Let’s talk: Internet Porn
Let’s be honest…it’s the epidemic no one talks about…but shapes our culture more than we care to admit. The availability of pornography on the internet is staggering…the ease with which anybody can access pictures of a pornographic nature is frighteningly easy. It’s an unspoken factor in many relationships…women feel ugly and fat and unloved when …
Hump Day Nudge–Surprised by Beauty
Sometimes beauty is heard in strange and surprising ways, with unexpected skill and expertise that makes the beauty all that much more surprising and awesome. Sometimes beauty can come from places least expected…the pure gentle tones of the glasses give this song that I love a beauty even greater than the already natural beauty of …
Meet Michael Quiring
Knowledge reduces anxiety. Or at least I think so. When I prepared to move to California to begin graduate studies, I was shivering in my boots (figuratively, and literally…it’s cold in Saskatoon compared to the San Joaquin valley!) I was nervous about moving to another country and putting down roots in an unknown city. Because …
Hump Day Nudge…Everyone wins when the underdog wins!
I love it when folks who need to feel the awesome feeling of accomplishment happens…and folks around do what it takes to make that happen. Those sorts of moments change us all… when we watch a child accomplish a longed for goal, and see his mother’s joy when we see a teen age …