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The Corporate Woman

Some 20 years ago one of my co-workers struggled with expressing her feminine energy in the macho world of the oil and gas company that employed us. Those were the days when John Malloy wrote his fashion manifesto, "Dress For Success". My friend’s struggles with who she was and what ‘the corporation’ expected inspired the…

Are You Watering Your Creative Garden?

My best buddy is, among many other things, a writer and aspiring novelist. Like many would be novelists and other creative eclectics she does not currently ‘make her living’ doing her passion. What to I mean "doing her passion’? I mean actually making a living, paying the rent, financing her lifestyle, by working as a…

The Face Behind This Blog

I was inspired by Dawud’s recent post "The Face Behind My Blog". So, here’s my photo. The photo was taken this past Easter weekend by my son Matt. I’m poised on the guardrail at the edge of Elbow Falls in Kananakis country. I tend not to like photos of myself. BUT I do like this…

Confessions of a Dirty Link Whore

I loved the title of this bit by Chris at Media Bistro’s MBToolbox, "Confessions of a Dirty Link Whore" WOW! Sex, Tech, and Networking! All good things come in 3s. Chris’ commentary on maxing up your LinkedIn profile makes some interesting points about the power of "Who you know". It’s long been a tenet of…

It Feels Good When You Stop!

I don’t think of myself as a quitter. In fact, if anything is true I tend to stick things out far too long. Long past the time when it’s good for me. Thus it was that the other day I found myself overwhelmed by my ‘school work’ as a trainee instructor at the University of…

Join Me & Paula G. for "Living In Your Own Skin"

Howdy! Are you comfortable "Living in Your Own Skin?"  Please join me, Tuesday, May 22nd, at 4:00 p.m. MDT, for the 4th installment of the Genre Busters Podcast. The topic will be "Living in Your Own Skin" with guest coach and writer Paula Gregorowicz – Paula G. as she is known to her friends, colleagues,…

Me Time!

I just had one of the worst days of pain in recent memory. It sucked!! Rain. Cold. Damp. Wind. Almost guaranteed to bring on pain. And, they did. It was a shitty, cold, damp day yesterday. And, I was in pain all freaking day. Here’s what I going to do to ‘ensure’ this pain doesn’t…

Creating a Whole Life

I stole the title of this post from a workshop I took 18 years ago. The notion of having a ‘whole’ life, as in complete, healed, appealed to me then… and still does. When I blew my life apart 22 years ago, I knew I would have to rebuild it. It was my intention to…

Back to School

I went back to school at the age of 39 to do my MSOD degree. It was bloody hard work. But, after 20 months of slogging, 2000 hours of field work, research, reading, and typing, retyping, editting my thesis was approved and April 16, 1988 I walked across the stage and accepted my fake diploma….

The Five Emotions

I forget when I first heard the emotions stripped down to their bare essentials? Those essentials being mad, glad, sad, and scared. Then sometime in the past year as I began reflecting on my own experiences I felt that there was something missing. And, that the missing emotion had something to do with sex and…