July 7, 2015 CBC Metro Morning podcast discusses recent police shooting in Toronto You can access the above-noted CBC Metro Morning podcast here. On the morning of July 7, 2015, I was listening to an interview (see link in previous sentence) on CBC Metro Morning regarding a recent police shooting in Toronto of a person holding a […]
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I was very pleased to read a comment from Sue (Robinson) Brady at a post entitled: Cheryl Vince’s favourite teachers at Malcolm Campbell High School included a principal and a vice-principal Click on the photos – from a reunion in Vancouver about a decade ago – to enlarge them; click again to enlarge them further […]
Sometimes I do a good job of getting things done, but sometimes I could do better. For that reason, I’ve been reading about executive function. Executive Function and Child Development (2013) The following text is from p. 8 of Executive Function and Child Development (2013): “In recent years there has been a surge of interest in […]
I’ve been following some recent email discussions about Japanese knotweed in Colonel Sam Smith Park and Marie Curtis Park. A number of such patches are evident in Colonel Sam Smith Park, according to one email, which adds: “Getting rid of knotweed is a complicated business that requires expertise. By the way, it is a big problem all along […]
A July 1, 2015 New York Times article is entitled: “Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children from the Holocaust.” An excerpt reads: Nearly all the saved children were orphans by war’s end, their parents killed at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen or Theresienstadt. After the war, many remained in Britain, but others returned to Czechoslovakia or […]
I’ve recently had the occasion to write a few words about mindfulness meditation. In this post I will add a few words. I attended an eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course at the Meditation for Health medical clinic in Toronto in 2004. It took me over a decade of daily meditation, between 20 and 40 minutes […]