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Words are important. The words we choose have an impact on others and the culture we are creating. Words aren't everything. They are the...

What drew people to Mr. Rogers even though he always seemed ridiculously slow to me? Why were people transformed and moved to tears when...

(Dirty plate metaphor sounds just a bit sexy...do read on. ;) There are those times when someone, especially a special someone, doesn't...

I just read an article in GQ (?!) entitled "Look, Man, You're Not Actually Scared of Clowns," which has got me to again revisit this...

What I'm about to say is NOT a parental guilt trip. I'm sure I'd feed my children, if I had them, cheese toast 3X a day if they wouldn't...

There's been a lot of talk lately about vulnerability (thanks Brene Brown). In a way I see it as our culture using our giant brains and...

I speak a lot in the work I do about being a permission-giver. In Canada, we were recently with Gord Downie, of the Tragically Hip, as he...

"'Being creative' is not something beyond us, nor do we have to become it. "Creative" is an idea that compartmentalizes and limits our...

I had a theatre teacher who, with a giant smile, would say, "perfect!" at the end of just about everything, even when it appeared obvious...

There is a coastal community in Colombia, who consider themselves sentipensantes, beings that use both their brain and their heart. (If...

I am going to perform in a couple of months. This has me living in what I like to call, "the excruciating in-between" (or what Pema...

As I create an identity for my new 3 in 1 blog I am still thinking about the idea of "weird but not too weird." There's the part of me...

I am slowly migrating all three of my websites into one. I believe I created each one of them in the hopes of not being "too weird" to...