Spring Cleaning For seasoned Albertans, Spring is that time of year when you experience all four seasons in a month. Realistically it just seems that way. For...
Author - Duane Harder
Duane is a pastor, educator and counsellor.
Boring, Boring, Boring There is an ad for home maintenance services on Global News at 6 that encourages homeowners to turn the boring home-care jobs over to a...
Four Essential Components to Life After 82 years of life experience, I have discovered there are some things that are important if we are to have a meaningful...
How’s Your Love Life? Here we are in February, and central to the month is Valentine’s Day. Some would say, “Love is in the air.” That raises an interesting...
Can Dreams Come True?! In answering that question, let me start with a true story. While attending a business seminar in Palm Springs, California, our son-in...
Christmas – What’s it about? For many, Christmas is charged with ambivalence. Trying to buy gifts with meager resources; navigating through crowded...
Welcome to the Distraction Age I never cease to be amazed at the number of children I see in restaurants, in shopping carts, on public transport, walking down...
Four Pillars of Community In working with families, individuals, community leaders, and business owners, I have concluded that there are four basic principles...
To Change or not to Change? The Serenity Prayer God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom...
The Power of Positive Thinking Back in 1952 Norman Vincent Peale wrote a book entitled, The Power of Positive Thinking. To some it was a book of wishful...
