I’m so excited we are returning to the polls Oct. 14. Aren’t you? Don’t you want the opportunity to redo something you just did? I think I’ll throw out the lunch I just made for my daughter and make it again. Why not? While I’m at it, I think I’ll go back and repeat high school and recommend that my …
Desperately seeking summer: if not here, somewhere else
Weather-wise, this has been a pretty bad summer. I hesitate to even use the word summer because it is a stretch. Really, we’ve had a nice spring or fall, but certainly it has not shaped up to the season usually marked by weeks of gloriously hot, sunny days. There have been only glimmers of summer weather, so few in fact, …
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Sometimes it is best to lie on the floor and contemplate real truth
When you open your eyes and are staring at the ceiling (and you are not lying in bed) it probably means you have fallen — unexpectedly. More specifically, it may mean that someone has pulled the rug out from under you. For each of us it is a different degree of tragedy, sorrow, or pain that sends us to the …
In our mourning and grief we both lose and gain
This past week I find myself mourning three people I didn’t know: one child, one columnist, one professor. Two are from our community, one is not. Regarding the child, I wrote once before about the loss of a child, a tragic burden to their family and our community, because with that child’s life goes all the hopes and dreams everyone …
Joy and passion in your work will bring satisfaction
Do you love your job? Do you get up every morning excited to get started? If you are like me, and you love what you do from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., you don’t need to use the four-letter word — work — when you are heading out the door. Donald Cooper — a man whose family name …
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Be open to finding wonder in the most unexpected places
I don’t think you are supposed to find wonder in a tunnel connecting two terminals in the Detroit airport, but I did. I was reminded of my sense of wonder, and how far I had wandered away from it. When my kids were going through their firsts, I reveled alongside them: the first snowflake to touch their face, the first …
Wanting what you have IS getting what you need
Wanting and needing, getting and having. It seems that our thirst is never quenched. Why do we always want more? I felt small as a child and wanted to be big — worth-noticing “big.” I wanted to be wanted. I wanted to belong. I wanted to play. I wanted to learn. I wanted to see new things and try new …
Live your life so that you will be well remembered
Editorial & Opinion, Wednesday, June 16, 2008 We’re all headed for the same place. The difference is the way we get there, and how quickly we get there. We could be dead tomorrow or around for another hundred years. Who knows. Some of us take the high road and some take the low road, some take it all in stride, …
We’ll have to coin a word for our newly found fear of plastics
Editorial & Opinion, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 The Oxford English Dictionary has no word for fear of plastics. In light of recent headlines, I’d like to coin plastiphobia or plastipanic, because I know I’m not alone in questioning the predominance and safety of some plastics in our world. It may have started with all of the product recalls for plastic …
Teams, organizers changed for the better after Adventure Challenge
Editorial & Opinion, Wednesday, May 14, 2008 On Sunday May 4, 2008, I made more than 171 friends (pretty good for one weekend). I was lucky enough to be part of the provincial High School Adventure Challenge where I met 57 teams of three from 41 communities across Ontario, along with their coaches, parents, guardians, and a number of volunteers. …