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Next Time, Leave The Phone At Home. It is Remembrance Day.
As I participated in a Remembrance Day service, I was struck by the inability of people to focus on the service at hand without talking on their cell phone, texting, and missing the point of being...
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There Are Days When You Need To Ante Up
Today is one of those days when you wish that people would answer their meeting invites. It is tough enough to schedule a ‘day with time for everything’ without being stood up. In short, Answer the...
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Grace Had Rules Before Gibbs
I was watching NCIS on the PVR when the penny dropped. I realized that my mother had life rules very similar to Leroy Jethro Gibbs. I had forgotten about them. I trolled around my laptop and found...
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Grace’s Rule 101: Never Take A Knife to A Gunfight
It used to sound strange when my rather polite mother used that phrase. It was usually when something went wrong, the right tools weren’t available and the wrong people were involved. After all if...
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Open Letter to the members of the CRTC: It is time for you to go.
I blog when I have something to say and Terry Pedwell’s Canadian Press article on the CRTC touched a nerve today. Let me quote from Terry Pedwell’s Canadian Press article, “CRTC secretary general John...
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Grace’s Rule 25: Real Veterans Need Real Support
Tomorrow will be the 3rd anniversary of my mother’s passing. I was looking through some of her letters and thought that it made sense to talk about two of her passions. My mother was a champion for...
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Grace’s Rule 525: Vote or Stop Whining. Your Vote is Your Voice.
Grace had a very progressive political philosophy for a product of the WWII generation. She grew up in a house with a male feminist. In previous posts, I have talked about how my grandfather believed...
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Do You Know Where Your Family Values Come From? I Do. You Should Too.
I have spent the last few months listening to my friends, family and colleagues vigorously debate the need for Christian values in our lives. They appear to have forgotten that our ancestors weren’t...
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We Lost Another One. Remembering Those Who Serve and Served.
Another veteran died today. It was hard for him to see the world we have today. He saw a world where the sacrifice of his friends wasn’t valued by ‘the young people of today’. He told me, ‘I am so...
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We All Bleed Red
I have been watching the reaction to the US election and with today being Thanksgiving, it occurred to me that people are missing some fundamental points. 1. If anyone really believes the election...
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