It's quite strange, how one day you open your eyes and really see what is going on around you and realize that your motions and your choices have a huge ripple affect on everything around you. For the longest time now I really believed that my next purpose in life was to pause my career to have a child. Maybe it is, I still would welcome the experience, and some days pine for it..but I am starting to realize there are other things possibly more important right now. I may not have my own daughter or younger sister by birth, but I have 3 young woman in my family who seem to be looking for something from me. Whether guidance, or validation or just someone to talk to about this crazy experience called life...it suddenly seems that I have been called on to be there to help them get to the next stage in their lives. My 2 nieces and younger sister-in-law..all in their early 20s, all in very different circumstances, have challenged me to share what I have learned and to share their expe...
As the New Year begins, one of my wishes for 2026 is that some big thinkers in our country will discover a more permanent solution to the Canada Post dilemma. Not simply a bailout, and not necessarily a new business model for the same service, but real thinking towards what happens next in mail and package and information delivery. I love writing letters, especially with a beautiful fountain pen. And I absolutely love receiving letters, cards, and fun mail. And when all that disappears or becomes a premium service, I too, will be in mourning. Though as someone who spends their work assuring smooth, user-friendly digital giving and communication, I have no illusions that the day is coming when lettermail delivery, as we know it, will cease to exist. Change is hard, and the transition will continue to take time. Human behavior is hard to affect, especially if the 'why' it's diluted or hard to understand. Yes, the pandemic forced a rapid and significant change in human behav...