I’ve got a couple of weeks before I start my new gig. This looks to be one of the best summers approaching in memory–especially when I get to spend time on the waterfront. The weather is great, the view stunning, and people are friendly– especially the tourists and visitors to Toronto.
The most important thing there is [...]

Daily routines and mundane tasks have a way of getting in the way of our goals. While I’m waiting for the next inspirational idea to develop or working on my next assignment, laundry and dishes pile up. I wish I had some sort of special arrangement– maybe living in a hotel, sending everything out to [...]

I spent something like $50 on a sweatshirt and after one wash, it has “fuzz” in a couple spots. I find this depressing because the purchase was supposed to be uplifting and now the lack of quality is what’s shining through. I’m not saying that shopping is supposed to change my life–but I would have [...]

I used to play guitar, back in the day. Once, I borrowed a book from the library containing a lot of blues songs. One was called, ‘The Christmas Blues.’ There was a little paragraph before the sheet music, “Blues at Christmas? Why not…”
This is supposed to be a happy time– at least that’s the perception floated by advertisements, shop window [...]

There’s nothing quite as exciting as hearing family members give you well-intentioned, but utterly useless advice. Taking situations that happened to them, devoid of the specific context, and trying to apply them to your life without correcting for any temporal or spatial differences.
We’re all exactly the same, right? Same problems, same goals, same attributes, same personalities [...]

I’ll never forget this awful computer commercial where basketball player Steve Nash is telling us about the company. He rambles on, repeating a script with little interest or insight, and absolutely zero passion. It comes across like a marketing guru was burned out and produced a cut & paste from a marketing manual.
And that’s how [...]

Friendships are a lot like plants. You have to maintain them, otherwise they’ll wither. Under the worst of circumstances, namely total neglect, they die off.
As we move to new places, leave old haunts behind in search of new digs, people get lost in the shuffle. In the here and now, maybe two people just don’t synchoronize [...]

It seems very sad to me that a person can work their entire life to reach a goal, and then discover that they haven’t finished the race, and they have to go beyond in order to be fulfilled. But hey, it happens all the time: You finish college, and realize the real test is getting [...]

Out there, they’re counting down to the end of winter. That mentality doesn’t suit the bill–running away from an event; It’s much more preferable to look towards something.
And it looks like there will be plenty of things coming to look forward to.

Two Sundays ago, I saw a coyote prowling through the farmers field beyond our backyard. It was maybe just a coincidence that a marauding predator was in the area– but since I felt down, I wanted to interpret the event as something deeper.
His positive traits include humor and sometimes cleverness. His negative traits are usually [...]