Celebrating 40 years

Apart from birthdays and Christmas, we are not really good at celebrations. Even birthdays seem to pass by with only short reference to what it represents! So this week’s celebration of our retirement took on special meaning. It would have been easy to say that’s it, we are done, time to move on. But I…

Women in leadership

As I am listening to Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, now 31 hours into it out of 40 hours, he spends some time talking about the personal cost of serving as a staffer in the White House. He spells out the family separation, the long hours, the constant weight of the work, the consistent criticism…

Vegerville visit

The kids are off to school, the autumn routine is in full swing and the weather is reminding us that summer days are almost over. We even have had the furnace on a couple of nights! Change is in the air! Wendy and I had talked about visiting a number of small towns in the…