Motions, Misery, Meaning, and Merriment

This past week has been one of certain extremes; from caroling with dear friends with G’rilla Kindness™ at the residence of my mother and she hearing me sing for the first time in 91 years… to running the streets of downtown St. John’s on a Saturday...

The Epic Road

Dictionary.com defines epic as, among other things, “heroic; majestic”.  Merriam-Webster adds “extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope “. Dictionary.com defines a virtue as, in part, “a good or admirable quality...

Doing is Believing

Some months back, the incredible Toni Newman asked me if I would perform a song to help launch her year as President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers.  My first reaction was indeed yes.  But the song being requested was Because We Believe as sung...

Soldiering ON

As I start 3 days of learning, speaking, and singing at the 2014 CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) Convention, I am awaking this morning with a thought around words. We grew up with the adage, “sticks and stones”, but language does...