These days, I find it difficult to answer the question “So… what do you do, Dene?” now that I’m not working for someone else in a traditional 8 to 5 kind of job.
In fact, I don’t know what I’m going to put on my tax return this year… you know that little spot that says [...]

As part of a celebration of the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King, Jr., my four year old daughter was asked to complete a sentence, describing what she wants to be when she grows up. The sentence simply said “I have a dream to be a… ” and was left open-ended for the children [...]

I have judged people harshly for their actions over the years.
I think back to an employer that I felt treated me unfairly and I despised him on every level. But that was many years ago, and those strong feelings faded with time, and with better working experiences.
There was a person who stole my husband’s identity [...]

PERCEPTION: an intuitive judgment based on personal experience, heuristics and available information.
Yesterday my daughter and I were in the car, and she said something that threw me for a loop. She said, “Mama, my school is by a junk yard.” A junk yard?? For a moment I felt myself cringe at the thought of my [...]