Life Lessons

I try to bring to my readers insight into what I’ve learned and experienced over my lifetime.  This week I will recount how I screwed up, what I did about it and how I felt about it.
This week was a very up and down week.  There were great emotional highs and lows like a roller [...]

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This week I ventured to the capital of the United States, Washington DC.  I took a flight from Montreal to Dulles International on a Regional Jet.  Since I was an employee of an airline for 20 years, I have experienced my share of turbulence over the years but never like this.  About halfway through the [...]

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Accepting that I may have no friends after I finish this blog, I must in the spirit of fairness provide the other side of the story. Actually it was one of my readers (Curly Q) who convinced me to attempt to see the problems from the other side and expose how we got here.  I [...]

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I‘ve been watching the program “Til debt do us part“, the series on TV where couples apply to get a money makeover from Gail Vaz-Oxlade.  It is incredible to me how seemingly intelligent people can be so incredibly stupid about money.   It’s really quite simple.  If you make $4000 net a month and you spend [...]

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Someone near and dear to my heart asked me to write this blog.  So here it goes Dotane, this bud’s for you as the beer commercial says.  There are times in our lives we need to re-group or even re-build.  That’s when we need to get back to basics.
This year I’ve had family members; friends [...]

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The most valuable gift you can give a loved one is to join them on their final journey and walk beside them during this time.  It is devastating to hear that a dear friend or loved one is terminally ill.  It is frightening and painful and it even makes us think about our own morality.  [...]

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Having been a young woman (and regrettably am no longer) I remember vividly being under the delusion that whatever perceived faults my partner had could be fixed if only he would cooperate.  I remember as a young wife being hurt when my husband wanted to go out one night a week to play sports.  How [...]

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When I was a young woman in the 70’s, Domtar would not even accept my application as an Order Desk clerk because I wasn’t a man.  Only men could work on the order desk.  I would have liked to sue them but I don’t think you could in those days.  I do remember being shocked [...]

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This weekend we drove to Ottawa to make dinner for family and friends, pick up Christmas presents for other people and visit a dear friend in the hospital.  Although it was incredibly tempting to stay home, read, relax and watch my Christmas tree twinkling, we went on our way and have just returned and I’m [...]

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