It’s back-to-school season. The leaves are beginning to flutter downwards; the nights are getting cooler and old memories return, including one of a September afternoon during my second year of university. I was stuck at my desk, gazing out the window at some of my fellow students. They were on the quad playing Frisbee and […]
Summer is the time for romance and we’ve all heard of the summer fling. Two people get together in the spring and start a whirlwind romance full of passion and pleasure, only for things to fizzle out come September. Many of us would love to find someone in the spring and have a summer fling. […]
It’s summertime and for many, that means bikini season. One age-old question we ask ourselves is why do we lose weight for the summer, only to gain it all back in the fall? The answer may surprise you. For those of us who like spending summer at the beach or by the pool, there’s a […]
The world is getting crazier and people are more and more stressed out. Between the political climate and the actual climate, we’re feeling the heat and it’s taking its toll. It’s impossible to know how things will go – will our government do the right thing? Will business and industry finally wake up to the […]
Tara Parker-Pope just published an interesting article in the New York Times about the health benefits of spending time with positive people. Her recommendation is that if we want to be healthier, we ought to spend less time with negative people and a lot more time hanging out with positive ones. It seems self-evident that […]
Summer is in full swing and lots of singles are starting to stress out about not having a date for that summer wedding, pool party or family reunion. For many people, it’s awkward to show up solo to these types of events. It’s stressful not knowing that there will be at least one person at […]
Bullying is a big problem these days. Online, at school, at home and in the workplace, bullies are preying upon the vulnerable. There are even bullies in politics, pushing around their fellow politicians and oppressing their constituents. Bullies are nasty individuals who pick on those who they consider weaker than they are. At home, the […]
We all have at least one or two people-pleasers in our life. We can recognize them as those overly nice, helpful, accommodating individuals who’ll go out of their way to be there for everyone else. We think of people-pleasers as basically decent folks who are trying too hard to be nice. The truth is that […]
Last week was a terrible one. Both the designer Kate Spade and chef-author Anthony Bourdain took their own lives. These are public figures but they had their own private demons and tragically, in both cases, the demons won. I remember reading Bourdain’s book, Kitchen Confidential a while back. His writing style was so intimate that […]
Lately I keep hearing about kids falling apart at the slightest provocation. At home, on the playing field and at all levels of education young people are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis. These are our future doctors, lawyers, artists and leaders, so we have reason to be concerned. A grade-six teacher was telling me […]
