Navel Gazing

Final Thought: Out of balance

A number of years ago, I watched an animated film that featured two people on a raised platform. When one of the characters moved...

Final Thought: the Challenges you face

If you look at it from one perspective, Rose O’Neil failed to accomplish what she set out to do.  She crossed the finish line twenty...

Final Thought: Back to the mountain

After a couple year’s delay due to a pandemic, the XXII Emperor’s Challenge is finally being held, appropriately in MMXXII. Or, as the kids...

Final Thought: Reframing the argument

A few weeks back, you might remember, there was a terrible storm in Ontario, which knocked out electricity for a few days.  While the power...

Final Thought: Adventures in Travel

We travel for advunture, but sometimes, the travel is the adventure.  That is even more true now as the travel industry comes out from two...

Final Thought: Learning through teaching

And for ... let’s call it the thirty-third year in a row, I have not been asked to share my wisdom with the graduating...

Final Thought: Simple answers

I’m in a band. I’m not saying this to proclaim my musical chops, though if you ask people who have seen me play, I play...

Final Thought: definitively data

We yearn for certainty.  As a species, we humans want to know things for sure. We want to have things spelled out in black and...

Final Thought: out of sight, out of mind

I admit it, I too have been complaining about the weather the last few weeks, because we’re more than a week into May and...

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