I’ve been indulging myself somewhat, reminiscing about some of my best Christmas memories, but other issues come to mind as well. I remember what a shock it was to discover that Santa Claus was not real. My parents and siblings had managed to keep me in ignorance for several years, and then the roof fell […]
“Treat for shock and send for a doc.” That was the theme song of everyone who taught first aid and dealing with trauma. How do you do that? Remembering my experiences of trauma, I wanted to be reassured, surrounded by warmth and care and bundled up in a warm blanket.
This is my third post on […]
Greetings all. Steve here. Well, I’ve been feeling low for a few days. I thought it was just the standard end of term blues, ya know, decompressing from exams and whatnot, but I think it’s something more. But now I realise what’s been going on, I realise what was dragging me down, what’s been making […]
Most companies give you two or three bereavement days if you have lost a loved one through death. We generally tend to think that people should get over their grief in a very short time. This is a generally accepted idea but it is wrong. It takes a long time to deal with our grief. […]
Someone sent me this joke the other day. I thought it was an excellent intuitive shortcut for the tedious task of chopping wood.
Joe calls the cops and says that his neighbour, Mike, has drugs hidden in pieces of wood in his garage.
The cop thanks him and the next day a half a dozen police officers […]
I have been missing for most of the past week. My apologies, but I had a good reason. My brother-in-law, my wife’s only brother, died suddenly. Everything else took a back seat as we got up to Montreal, and eventually to Trenton, Ontario, for the funeral.
This experience has made me decide to write a workshop […]
Following last week’s fun and excitement with our little electrical fire (you can see my posts on it here and here), we had to move quite a bit of stuff around in the basement, so that the electrician could get in and work. In the process, we turned up quite a few odds and […]
Greetings all, Steve here. Recently there’s been a great deal of controversy about the the huge Christmas tree that Nova Scotia sends down to Boston every Christmas, as a gesture of thanks for their massive assistance after the Halifax Explosion. For those who don’t know, the Halifax Explosion occured in December 6, 1917, when a […]