Good day, Henry here. Everyone has done things which were both at times exhilarating and fascinating, but also sometimes terrifying. Starting a small business, skiing too fast and riding an over-excitable horse are some examples from my life. Lately I have been doing another.
I have been doing something which tests my mettle, looking after my […]
Henry today. Which of us hasn’t hurled that accusation from a friend, a boss, a child or, more particularly our partner?
“You let me down!” “You are not the person I thought you were!” “Why did you change so much?” This is a serious problem and they are strange questions. The most reasonable answer […]
“We shall always be in love. We will continue to keep our love alive the same way it is now,” said a nice young lady in the front row of a recent pre-marriage workshop. Her fiancé sitting beside her smiled contentedly. I though of her comment when I read an article copied in our local […]
Can you believe it? A snake ate an alligator. Naturally it exploded. You may well have seen it in the news. Most papers picked it up, but it is still a shocker. It reminds me of the camp song about Mrs. Jackson. The first verse says that she swallowed a fly, and didn’t die. […]
The aftermath of hurricane Katrina reminds us of any time we have been involved in a traumatic event. What it reminded me or was when Swiss AIR 111 crashed outside Halifax several years ago, with total loss of life. I worked on the team on that recovery operation, working as a `debriefer’, debriefing those […]
In previous posts I tried to cover some of the basic things that one should try to do to improve ones chances of survival. There are many other elaborate lists of both things on the web. Today we are going to do something different. What about the situation when we are not the survivor of […]
A little 13 year old girl when quizzed by a reporter about her experience in hurricane Katrina said: “I don’t want to talk about it.”
How foolish of the reporter to think that the girl would unburden her heart in front of the entire nation. Of course she will have to talk about her experience […]
We are still absorbing the terrible images from Hurricane Katrina. The images are seared into our minds. Tens of thousands of cars fleeing New Orleans. Tiny children being airlifted into helicopters, people stranded on roof tops begging for rescue, thousands of stranded people jammed into the Superdome. 80% of the city underwater and thousands dead. […]