There are friends that you happen upon in this marvellous Journey of Life whose initial impact belies their long-term significance. Friends who slip in through an open door, stay for tea, drift out again and then return from time to time, for another visit, to chat or simply to check in with a “hi, how…
Category: apropos of nothing
A Moment
On my way to a meeting this morning, I stopped to drink my coffee near the RNC horse stables on Government House grounds. It was a beautiful morning and would have felt like one of those soft, summer’s mornings, but for the fact that it’s February and was akin to minus eight Celsius. The sun…
Too many layers
I like my Mondays simple. I like for everyone else to leave the house and for a modicum of order, peace and sanity to settle over my thought processes. Today that will not happen. Some Mondays are like that. Some Mondays are simply days that you roll with and lurch along from on task to…
On Self-pity and determination
I had planned to go on a long run this afternoon. When you have a child, you have to plan such things because if you do not, they will not happen. As the saying goes for diets, exercise and anything else that can be easily sublimated by the whims of others, failure to plan is…
Alive
One of the perks of working at home is being able to do things like wander out into the greenhouse on my lunch-break. In Newfoundland during February, this is not a perk to be sniffed at. Today there wasn’t much to see. A few dead grapes, some hot peppers that didn’t get picked last year…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 