How vs Why

Answering “why” is hard. The first experience with “why” that I remember sticks powerfully. I was a child…I think I might have been three or four. My brother and I were brushing our teeth at the bathroom sink…and the toothpaste cap slipped out of my fingers and it fell down the bathroom drain. It must …

Relationship Maintenance

Nothings wrong with a tune-up…but do you bother? I took my car in last week to Winnipeg Honda Service Department…it had been on my mind to get the car in before the snow flew. September and October were crazy months of teaching and driving tribe members hither and yon…and so by the time I got …

Honoring the Remembering

Today, in honor and memory of those who went and didn’t come back, and for those who mourn them and remain behind, for those who went and came back never to be the same, for those that live with them forever changed… we remember. At our house, it was a somber and quiet moment this …

Engagement!

Got a call first thing Monday morning…Nadia, one of the excellent therapists around here, got engaged to Tom on Saturday night…a night complete with his home cooking, roses, and beautiful moments. She is excited and is eagerly anticipating the wedding…and her marriage. During our phone conversation as we were giggling and bubbling over her happiness, …

“He’s just a guy”

I think this is beautiful: I realized for years I’d thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the alter of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. And it had cost most of the girls I’d dated, too, because I wanted …

Mr. Dressup

CBC turned 75 years old this week. They’ve been playing bits of archival material, and because its one of the stations I listen to when I’m in the car, I’ve been catching bits of them…like pieces of “As it Happens” interviewing a hostage taker in the middle of Washington’s hostage crisis years ago, or the …

Deep Breath–and Love with Action

Sometimes it doesn’t take a lot for it to mean a lot. I was talking to a friend the other day…a friend who has had it “up to here” with adolescent sons…you know, the normal kind that burp (loud!) without apology, needs rides hither and yon, and just generally think they are the center of …

Walking the Stairs on Dragon’s Den

The Women Business Owners of Manitoba sent out an email blast letting the community of female entrepreneurs know that Carolyne Braid, the vice president of WBOM, and owner of Pole Fit Canada is going to be on Dragon’s Den on November 2, 2011 . Carolyne described the extensive process of working towards being on the …