I have often found that people, when they most need to change, hesitate to make that change. As a result of this hesitancy, their life becomes a stagnant rutt that they struggle to get out of. The excuses abound (Not the right time. Not the right phase of life. Too difficult to do. What if […]
None of My Business
Fairy Ointment Once upon a time there was, in the town of Tavistock, an old woman who was a midwife. One night, she had just got into bed when rap, rap, rap came on her cottage door. The summoner was a strange, squint-eyed, ugly little fellow, but she dared not resist the command to come […]
Hard Work
People have often been surprised by my work ethic. This may be because of the generation from which I come. In my generation we did not look for an escape from work, or for the easiest way to do that work. We simply rolled up our sleeves and did the work. We knew that to […]
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
I think that, for the most part, there is one major reason that people lie. They do so to save their own hides, or the hides of those they care about. Sometimes they lie to create an illusion of who they are. Sometimes they lie to protect their inner world from collapsing. But mostly it […]
The Peacock
When I was growing up I lived on a farm in rural Saskatchewan. We were about 20 miles from a very small city in the southeast area of the province. Even though it had the status of being a city because of the size of the population, people in the city and surrounding areas very […]