Life As A Human

My “Dominant” Dog and How I Cope

Is your dog “dominant” or willing to submit? Could you be living with a dog determined to take over and control your household? Dog Trainer Eric Brad looks as his own dog to see if the “warning signs” described by so many web sites could mean his dog is a tyrant in the making!

The Stairway To Heaven Is Not For Sale

27 Jan By Guest Author Leave a Comment

“In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle. ” – proverb

“This Language-Soaked Life” Part Four

26 Jan By Ross Lonergan Leave a Comment

From 1975-77 Maybin, still a “non-professional,” taught English as a volunteer for the Immigrant Services Society (ISS) in Vancouver. His students were South Asian women, many of whom had recently arrived and were illiterate, terrified, and desperately in need of language skills that would enable them to navigate the nightmare of shopping for meal ingredients [...]

Listening to my Gut

25 Jan By Martha Sherwood Leave a Comment

We all have them from time to time – strong, emotionally-colored urges to act in ways that make no rational sense and are counterproductive in our current modern society. Our forbears, and conservative Christians even today, ascribed this to “Original Sin” and prescribed prayer and penance as a countermeasure. Classical psychiatry presumes that the roots [...]

Rejected Because of Your Communcation Skills

24 Jan By Nathan Thompson Leave a Comment

I felt a twinge of recognition from both sides of the fence when I read this post from blogger Clarisse Thorn: “When we met for coffee and he did the Let’s-Just-Be-Friends thing, he said it was because of how I communicated. He said: ‘You know, I really like talking to you, and I liked having [...]

Mud Pies And Rain Dances

Guest Author Martha Farley looks back to simpler times growing up in a suburb and reminds us never to lose touch with the child within us.

Can a Life Success Coach Survive 'Cactus Hands'?

Life Success Coach Attacked By Cactus

Guest Author Jeffrey Sooey shares a comical experience to illustrate how and why optimism works in the real world, and why most people are actually quite resilient in the face of all sorts of difficulties.

Was Dorthy an Optimist? A Success Coach And The “Yellow Brick Road”

Guest Author Jeffrey Sooey provides us with a few of the key lessons he shares with his clients to move them along the “Yellow Brick Road”, thus training them to be the ultimate optimists.