Daisy Chain Book Co.

The intent was to visit a couple of small towns to walk the downtown. As Philip said, we don’t have those kind of towns like Ontario does. Quite right Phil! Alberta has had a different kind of development and towns did not grow up around a stream and a mill as did the east coast….

Speaker of the House

Is anyone else noticing that both in Canada and in the USA the speaker of the house was suddenly gone… in Canada, a resignation, in the USA a removal by vote…but both need a new speaker? In the USA it’s a civil war within the Republican party (a party seemingly intent on self-destruction) which caused…

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…