Monthly Archives: September 2013

It’s often in the face of a tragic event, such as the train and bus collision in Ottawa last week, that we pause and reflect on our lives and the interconnectedness of our existence. Ottawa is small and I estimate that most of its residence are within three degrees of separation of one another. ItContinue reading “Tragedy and our degrees of separation”

Anger gets a bad rap. It’s actually not all bad. Ask some of the teens I work with to list the up sides of anger and they will look at you with a puzzled expression as though you are crazy to even suggest that such benefits exist. The only benefit that they sometimes come upContinue reading “Don’t tell me to calm down!”

Nature Deficit Disorder. It’s the new rage. It’s the new Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder. It’s a first world problem, in our first world urban societies, where a blend of various socio-economic and cultural populations mix and segregate themselves amidst a bombardment of technological and material stimulation. We – kids, people – are deficient in nature and a senseContinue reading “NDD – the new ADHD – let’s tweet about it.”