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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – 
I took the one less travelled by, 
And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken Well, it’s that time again. It’s New Year’s Eve and I am staring at a blank page pondering w...

In my last word before a break for the holidays you were going to get a few words of nonsense about my dog, but then I received the following comment in an e-mail from my 87-year-old dad. “I think that when we come into the world, whatever our circum...

It goes without saying that this has been a year beyond measure – and in so many ways. What I find particularly fascinating is not so much what has happened but how we have responded; how we have pulled together to adapt to, and get through, what ha...

In the “great white north” where I was raised just about all insects either expire or hibernate long before the onset of winter. Homes are therefore virtually bug-free, to the point that an encounter with even a teeny spider in the bathroom is enough...

This week I want to try to address the hardest place for any person to access: it’s that dark musty closet under the stairs, in the most inaccessible corner of your mind, where you store all the stuff that you don’t want to admit that you own or just...

“Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is.” Speedy Alka-Seltzer TV jingle Can you believe that there are only forty-four days left in this year? When I was younger, I remember being told that the days flew by with increasing speed as you aged, ...

“As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” Ben Hogan Is golf a metaphor for life? That’s the question I was asking myself last week as I made the trek from my home in St George’s to Port ...

Ironically, one of the biggest challenges of being a successful leader is that you actually do make progress personally and professionally and reach a point where you have accomplished some of your major goals. When you are younger this is often not ...

I have a confession to make: the dog ate my homework. Ok, maybe that’s not exactly what happened. Maybe the truth is more like I had planned to write a really scholarly article about the challenges of the zero waste movement and life got in the way. ...

In Japanese Zen Buddhism, a verbal puzzle known as a “koan” is often used to frustrate the process of logical thought to encourage the student to look beyond the boundaries, or limitations, of their own thinking. In doing so the student is encouraged...