We’ve now officially entered into winter a month ago, although in my mind, typically winter starts around Canadian Thanksgiving or Halloween (in a good year). Regardless, we’re still at least a couple of months or more from the end of winter. In my opinion, this is...

When I was a pre-teen and early teenager, I remember reading a lot of “Choose Your Own Adventure” type novels. I’m not sure if they were particularly popular at that time, or if I just lived somewhere that time had temporarily forgotten, but that is one of the types...

Every year, the United Nations identifies specific areas or topics that will become focal points for the world for that year. Most years have several topics, at least one of which has some natural science element to it. The purpose of the designation is to promote the...

The end of the year is almost here. This is universally considered a prime opportunity to look forward to the next year and make some sort of plans and goals. Do you set goals? Why would you bother? Well, I have some thoughts on the subject. If you can cast your mind...

Throughout history, there have always been examples of people (soothsayers, etc.) in the population that made claims to know or be able to predict the future. In historic times, their degree of accuracy probably depended more on the gullibility of their audience, and...

Complaining about 2020 feels a bit like beating the proverbial “dead horse”, but in fairness, 2020 started it, right? It can be easy to look back on 2020 as a complete disaster, with the negatives completely overshadowing the positives, and the pile of adversity...

What does reputation mean to you? Over the years, I have spent a fair bit of time thinking about reputation and what that word means. Recently, I sat down and gave it some serious thought, as I felt that reputation was perhaps critically important to the success of my...

They (someone, no idea who) said that hindsight is 20/20. I am not sure that I agree 100 percent with that sentiment. We rarely look backwards without at least some sort of mental distortion, whether it be delusion, misperception, or some other sort of “fishing story...

Things are pretty dark out there in the world, whether you are looking at social, political, economic, financial, municipal, medical, or family circles. It can be challenging to see light at the end of the tunnel, or even recognize that this stretch is truly just a...