A man I greatly respect suffered a serious stroke. In the prime of life, the emotional tsunami washed his reality away. Today, dude is a shining example of humanus maximus and in my mind a Canadian hero. “That’s life” is how he describes his and the lot of others. He is right and now I [...]

Inspector Gadget Yes, there is a force called attraction and another called un-attraction. This is how it works: Do you prefer some foods, people or places more and prefer others less? That’s it. That’s the force we’re talking about. Most of  the gobbly-gook that is being written about the law of attraction is actually enticing [...]

Life is like a barrel of monkeys. You’ve got your barrel, your monkeys and everything else. Some of the keener folks among us have figured out that the trick to living a full life is to spend less time watching the monkeys or their barrel and more effort attempting to decipher everything else. And “everything [...]

Eight days ago I was fishing in shit swamp, a little hole in my home’s basement which connects me to the world wide sewer. A tree had choked the life out of my foulish liquified exhaust pipe, creating all manner of distasteful blow-back. As I stared gratefully catch-less for several hours into the ploppy abyss, [...]

Can You Tell A Child Is Writing My Articles? I have been submitting articles to ezinearticles for over four months now and I am proud to say that they have only refused two stories out of thirty six I subjected to their approval. Not bad for living in a country where democracy and free speech [...]

The first few years I was a manager I had no clue what I was doing. Like a lot of managers. I had fooled my way into management to begin with (like a lot of managers) and just naturally assumed a hierarchical dork attitude (like a lot of managers) until one day an old chef [...]

I wish I didn’t have so much concrete in my head If there is a warranty on me someone should apply for it. There are times when I feel like I’m operating at less than 50% capacity and others when I think I can’t give even one more ounce of energy. Perhaps after 53 years [...]

  Clean my boot on the way out, would you? Now Barry, don’t take this the wrong way because it’s not personal. My mind swooned and a wicked reality yanked my wobbly life force free of its moorings as those familiar words ram jammed my possibility pipe. THIS…IS…NOT…PERSONAL. But just the same you are fired, [...]

Not once in my life did anyone talk to me about power or how to handle it. Here I’m speaking about personal or position power – the ability to influence people simply through “being” – maybe because you’re someone’s oldest brother, boss or guru. Because I had little knowledge about this critical aspect of management, [...]