My pal, Graham Edwards asked me to write a response to his blog about his 12 rules for work. Graham is very “first-born child” in his nature, meaning he is more driven to perfection and even a bit bossier than this last-born child, who really just wants to have fun…

Life is all about change and coping with the unexpected. Nothing ever stays the same, nor should it, really. It is through change and adversity that new desires are born. We learn what we want every time we experience discomfort or something we don’t want. That discomfort provides us with…

My name is the French word for reborn. I have to say I have been aptly named. Change has been the only constant in my life and I tend to embrace it rather heartily. This may be partly because of my childhood. In the Maritimes where I grew up, the…

Language has always been interesting to me. I love to play with words and explore the origins of the words we use today. Language is like a living organism; constantly expanding and changing. The meanings of words change over time; sometimes to such a degree the usage becomes unrecognizable. Anyone…

As part of the communication/ messaging series I am doing with Graham Edwards, I thought it would be interesting to write about manipulative communication. If manipulators had horns, they would be easy to recognize. Quite often, the biggest manipulators are people who are very personable (at least on the surface)…