Enduring Lessons from an Unprecedented Year

I’m so proud to be a part of a show that stands for love and kindness and inclusivity and acceptance because those four things are things that we need more than ever right now.” – Annie Murphy, Emmy award winner for best actress in Schitt’s Creek Call it challenging, unprecedented, eye-opening or perhaps undefinable. Any way you look at it, 2020 has been a whirlwind of a year. For me, there’s been two major lessons that … Read more

It’s not all bad

rainbow over city

“Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” –Maya Angelou What’s been your silver lining this year?  With all the doomsday news, you have to look a little harder for the good stuff. So with a little over a week left in 2020, I thought I’d share 5 “good news” stories from around the world to help usher … Read more

12 days of neighbouring

backyard party

Back in the spring, John Helliwell, a happiness economist and editor of the World Happiness Report, sent me an Op-ed that he’d recently written on how, like previous crises, the pandemic was propelling people to connect and band together. He writes: “People are reaching out to friends, family and beyond to make contact, provide assurance, offer help, and … Read more