It’s been more than a year now and people have been asking me what it’s like to be remarried, especially now that I have a total of 5 kids. Perhaps my journal entry is the best way to explain it… Over the last month or so I’ve been feeling really good. I have just been completely happy about life...
Beyond the Postures: Taking a Closer Look at Yoga – by Joseph Ellis Pereira Yoga has recently exploded in the West as a way of getting in shape via a series of postures. Yet the focus on the exercise aspect of yoga had resulted in the true nature of yoga – originating thousands of years ago in India – falling to the wayside...
I had a friend vacationing from out of town and I wanted to show him the sites of Toronto - the CN Tower was a normal destination. It was an awesome sight, the tallest structure on earth. We were standing in line for 45 minutes with hundreds of other sightseers to enjoy the elevator up to the initial watch point - around 1500 ft above surface...
My kids and I were standing on the platform at the train station waiting for the train to pick us up and take us back to Toronto after a long weekend in Montreal visiting family. Ferne spotted a bird. It was a plump bird and it looked warm and snuggly, resting peacefully in her nook as though it had found a reprieve from the perils of the world...
With my son Louis in grade 6, and my little girl Ferne in grade 3, the beginning of a new school year brings new school subjects our way like those with interesting new musical instruments. Louis was assigned with playing the baritone. I wasn’t even convinced that a baritone was a musical instrument until he proved it to me by searching it on the web...
Have you ever noticed that when things start to go wrong, they just get worse? That's the kind of day I had today. Escalating badness. It's a function of the law of attraction. When you focus on the thing that makes you feel bad, you continue to feel bad and then you emanate bad energy and that energy just attracts more bad stuff...
She was tired and stressed and obviously upset. She was out of control and unable to collect herself. My 8 year old daughter, Ferne was beside herself because it was already 8:55 p.m. and she still had so much to do: study for her French spelling test, read, and write in her journal. Yes, of course she has a journal; she is my daughter after all! With a note of hysteria, she blamed me for letting the time slip by, and claimed that she hated herself for not being prepared for the spelling test...
I am sure it slipped. I know that it’s not what he meant to say, but it came out anyways. He was frustrated and perhaps a little tired. Our youngest son Brian revealed his true feelings about relationships as he uttered the words that are probably spot on for a good percentage of the population… “It’s hard to be nice...
I took the afternoon off work to be sure that I could be at home when my new car was delivered. My sister-in-law drove it into town from Montreal where it was bought. (I know…isn’t that nice???) After she arrived, we went for lunch and enjoyed the entire afternoon together until the time I had to drive her to the airport so that she could catch a flight back home...
As work-from-home entrepreneurs we experience stress on a daily basis. We deal with client deadlines, acquiring new clients, client retention, team building… the list is endless! And this is before spouse and kids get home. “It is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well...
