Just before Valentine’s Day we received the sad news of the death of a dear friend. This was someone who my husband had known through high school, someone who immigrated to Canada with him, who studied with him, and whose family members shared many happy times with us although we lived some geographic distance apart. […]
Month: February 2011
How much 'life' is it costing you to keep working?
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately and in the long run. — Henry David Thoreau It’s a bit more than a year ago that I submitted a letter to the Board of Directors indicating that I would retire in […]
A week of reading and media deprivation
I did it. Last week I began a week of reading and media deprivation lasting from Sunday evening to Sunday evening. I made it through the week. While the experiment yielded mixed results, it certainly made me aware of some of my habits and provided incentives to make some changes in how I spend my […]
Cold turkey — the midway point
Regular readers of Postworksavvy know that I’m taking a week off from radio, TV, social media and reading. Partly because I’ve saturated my brain with CBC, popular magazines, online diversions and reading novels during recuperation from hip surgery along with the usual hibernation and cocooning that comes with living through a Canadian winter and partly […]