When my son flew the nest to go to school in BC last fall, my thoughts wandered back to all the things I used to love to do, long before I started a family. When I lived in London, road biking was something for which I had a real passion. I shudder now when I […]

A couple of weeks ago, I made a quick trip out to Kelowna to visit my son who is in school there. It wasn’t a particularly relaxing 4 days… 12 hours of driving there and back, lots of running around the city buying things for his new home, late nights visiting with friends and catching […]

After reading Gandhi’s, “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth,” my heart was filled and inspired by the life of this humble, yet extraordinarily powerful man. Literally a few days later, I received an email from a friend giving details of a course on Nonviolent Communication. With thoughts of Gandhi in mind, I knew […]

Most of us are told that conflict is bad and we should try and avoid it. However, conflict in itself is neutral, it’s how we handle our differences when confronted with conflict that can cause the discomfort and emotional pain that we experience. As they say, it’s not what we are resisting that causes suffering, […]