Return to Yellowknife

When in the North, it is advisable to have a warm hotel room. But this is ridiculous. I’m staying at what I am referring to as the small q, Quality Inn in Yellowknife. It is near where I am working and it has a restaurant in the mall next door where I can get breakfast…

What counts?

Statistics tell some interesting stories. In my role leading the business function for The Salvation Army I would often see some contradiction between what we said was important and how we spent money. This is the struggle of every organization, keeping the main thing the main thing. Individuals within the organization can get lost in…

The place of peace

It’s Monday, and the price of oil is rising rapidly, and with it the price for gas at the local station. The war in the Middle East is expanding, and the threat to peace grows. Neither the UN nor the so called Board of Peace is going to pull Israel and the US back from…