You know the drill. Every January 1st, you make your New Year’s resolutions with the best of intentions, and every January 6th, you’ve already broken most of them. Is it even possible to keep New Year’s resolutions? I think so. You just have to make the right ones. We make resolutions to quit smoking, lose […]
Even though the holidays are upon us, I’ve noticed that lately, many people in Toronto have been more rude, selfish and inconsiderate than usual. Driving in my car, I’m often cut off. People speed through red lights and try to squeeze into parallel-moving traffic, risking accidents as they muscle their way in. The other day, […]
In 2014, I wrote an article entitled, Why Love Will Heal the World, for LinkedIn. I posted a photograph with the article that had personal meaning to me. To those reading the article, it was just a picture of my two cats, Sweetface and Joey, but to me, it was a symbol of unconditional love […]
Sometimes, a manager thinks that they need to be “nice” at work. They’re overly invested in being liked and they’re uncomfortable setting limits or giving consequences. They especially don’t like dealing with interpersonal conflicts between staff, assuming that at least one person will be unhappy with the way they resolve the issue. But this creates […]
America’s Got Talent used to be a really cheesy show with really cheesy acts, but as it often happens when a show develops a huge following, better quality people start auditioning and the tone of the show is elevated. Such was the case this season, when the acts were so stellar that several of the […]
The teenage years can be hard on everyone. The young person is going through so many changes to their body and their psyche; they’re discovering who they are and what they aspire to in life. Hormones are coursing through their veins, bringing on mood swings, irritability and confusion. They question and challenge almost everything — […]
The Olympics are over, but Ryan Lochte’s lie lives on. Still, if we look at it, he was just carrying on the ignoble tradition of making up a story to avoid being embarrassed for some inappropriate behaviour. Hey, if former presidents of the US can do it, Lochte is in lofty company. It got me […]
The other day, someone forwarded me a horrifying Huffington Post story by the lawyer and commentator, Lisa Bloom. The story was about why we shouldn’t ignore the child-rape charges recently filed against Donald Trump. Ms. Bloom was saying that Mr. Trump, as the current Republican presidential candidate, should be held up to a certain level […]
Leslie Jones briefly resigned from Twitter this week, and it’s not at all surprising. She’s been subject to one of the most virulent attacks by social media trolls that the Twitterverse has ever witnessed. And why was Ms. Jones the subject of such a horrific attack? It’s because one infamous troll (who shall remain nameless, […]
Someone sent me a link to the recent back and forths between the Swift and Kardashian-West camps these days, and they encouraged me to write about it. Even as I do so, I’m highly ambivalent, as the whole affair is rather unsavoury, to say the least. For those of you living on a different planet, […]
