Three steps. The all-important three steps to picking a winning team. People come into your life for a reason, season, or a lifetime… .” “Don’t mix seasonal people with lifetime expectations.” These are a couple of pieces of advice offered to me that helped me with those three steps. Now I am passing them on … Read More
Victory. Such a glorious word. There comes a time when you have to declare your victory even though you may be losing the fight.” ~ Richard Paa Kofi Botcheway That grabbed my attention! I would never have thought of it that way or said it even close to that way. Yet, I thought along the … Read More
Estate planning for your digital assets by Natalie Banta, Drake University What will happen to your Facebook account when you die? What about all your photos shared on social media, your texts with loved ones, or documents on cloud storage systems? In just the two-year period from 2012 to 2014, humans produced more data than … Read More
Sexual violence as a weapon of war: why the Nobel Prize for Peace matters. For ordinary women and men, peace is vital – as essential as air itself. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize award of 2018, know this. The Helper Mukwege is “the helper” who has provided medical … Read More
Girls, Girls, Girls – they grow into women and it is our responsibility to make sure they do with the least harm. “So amazing how this world was made I consider if GOD is a woman The gift astounds me till this day I give it up for THE WOMAN She’s the constant wind that … Read More
People with disabilities at risk of being wrongly deemed ‘incompetent’ by the health system, by Elizabeth Mohler, Western University As an individual with a disability, I live in fear that if admitted to the hospital, a healthcare provider may deem me incompetent based on my disability. This may seem unlikely, but I lived, academic and … Read More
Leaving the children behind. The hardest thing I have ever done in my life, to date, was to leave my children in the care of their father when we separated. I needed to re-form my life. Over the 16 years of my first marriage, I had let go of my dreams. I had arrived at … Read More
“How to define dignity and its place in human rights – a philosopher’s view” by Doris Schroeder, University of Central Lancashire To most people, the concept of dignity may not seem such a controversial subject. And yet it has been defined in different ways by different cultures and different philosophers. For some, it is the … Read More
Child Mental Health. Impact of child mental health problems is worse than 40 years ago – our new study suggests by Naomi Warne, Cardiff University and Ruth Sellers, University of Sussex In England, rates of childhood mental health disorders have increased in the past 20 years. The proportion of five to 15-year-olds with a mental … Read More
“Divine Guidance never fails to come. As I listen, the Voice within me becomes my unerring Guide. No matter how confused I have let my life become, there is a perfect solution…paths of peace and right action are revealed to me.” ~ Adapted prayer from “Your Needs Met” Up until her 17th birthday, my daughter always … Read More
