There are 100 days between today, 14 September and 20 December (the day I typically stop for the holidays (I am a mother of 4)). If I don’t do things differently, nothing will change and I want things to step up a notch here. Starting today I am doing one thing to move each of […]
Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She tells of the transitions in her life – life was just beginning to be harried (only in North America), the start of Women’s Liberation and she sees her generation as the first to experience knowing more people than one can care for. My Reading Life by […]
I’ve been writing this blog post for a few weeks now and it has bottle-necked any other post from coming along. Know what I mean? Today I read the Transitions are Tough post by Christine Gilbert on her blog Almost Fearless. She, her husband and their 18 mo baby are traveling the world. Something I […]
I haven’t been here for a while. I’ve been doing. TEDxNovaScotia, growing Crystal Clear Bookkeeping to 3 full-time people (I’m aiming for 5 by the end of the year) and starting a new venture: Repair-Share. That hasn’t left me much time for reflecting, let alone writing. It’s funny how much I’ve started noticing people expressing […]
JULY reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: a novel by Stieg Larsson. Oddly enough I’m content that it’s over and I don’t feel like I miss it. It ended, then went on and tied up a few loose ends. Thanks Regine, I’m glad I read these. Anything You Want: 40 lessons for […]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I was prepared to not like this novel. It’s popular, the author set out to write a best seller and it’s very dark. But I was drawn in and enjoyed it. I have ordered the next one, too. The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M […]
Doors Open, a Novel by Ian Rankin. I’m a big Ian Rankin fan. This is a little different than his other ones, and I like it. Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A journey through the 6,000 languages of earth by Glenn Dixon. Words are concepts not representations of things. Buying is a very […]
It’s hard to believe that it is May. April went by in a whirl of taxes and garden prep. (http://crystalclarion.wordpress.com/ my Good Life blog) That Summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and some others by Morley Callaghan. Makes you wonder where the new Paris is and who the new intelligentsia are. […]
It’s election time, here in Canada and the interest groups are out. As I was walking to my office, I met a group of Pro-Lifers coming the other way. Now I’m a feminist and I believe that a woman should have reproductive choice, but I believe that abortion should be the strategy of last choice […]
Your customers should be able to expect that you fulfill your promise of doing your business competently. That includes having the best products you can find, reasonable pricing, good customer service, fast, reliable, cheerful, careful, complete etc, etc. It’s only if you go a step beyond, to something that your competitors don’t do that you […]
