It is New Year’s Eve day and with the anticipation of a new year, people often think of New Year’s resolutions. Resolutions are often personal promises to our self. Twitter compiles a list each year of the most popular New Year’s Resolutions: They include: 5. Be a better person/self-improvement 4. Be happier 3. Lose weight […]
It’s called “The Big Dance” and for 2018 it ended last evening. It’s the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball tournament which is a 68-team single elimination tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1 college basketball national championship. For a couple of weeks in March and early April, it seems like non-stop basketball […]
“You are only free when you realize you belong no place – you belong every place – no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.” Maya Angelou Have you seen the posts on Facebook? I’m referring to the “Me too” campaign. Have you written “Me too” on […]
Can you name a few people whose leadership inspires and empowers you? Would your list of people include world leaders, activists, family members or friends? What words might you use to describe those role models? This spring I had the opportunity to be a preliminary round judge at the Take the Lead public speaking contest […]
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to be excluded from society? Why do we use terms like normal or different when everyone is different? I am honored that Leif Shantz has agreed that I can reprint a story he wrote for the Prism Project. Leif is in Grade 12 and he shares what […]
In July, 1924 my grandparents were among 875 Russian Mennonite immigrants of German descent who arrived in Waterloo, Ontario with their worldly possessions to the land of hope, freedom and opportunity. It was a 13,000-km journey from Russia to Canada which took four weeks. The kindness that was shown to them by the people of […]
Project 333 – Have you heard about it? The Project 333 website has been circulating around Facebook for the last while and at first glance I was intrigued but set it aside as “not interested”, “too hard” and just not something that I would do. Over the holidays, I heard a family member had recently […]
Home! What does the word home mean to you? What images and thoughts pop into your head? Home might conjure up warm feelings of love, belonging and safety or perhaps…home brings back memories of pain, loss and the wish that it all could somehow be better or different. December is a month filled with expectation […]
“So this is it!” Have you said these words in the last few weeks since you started university or college and wondered if you signed up for the right thing… Am I in the right place? the right program, the right courses, the right living place? I waited a long time to complete my university […]
What does it cost for you to live out your personal values? Is there a monetary cost, a time cost – or maybe both? I grew up in Kitchener-Waterloo in a household of faith. When it was time for me to go to high school Rockway Mennonite Collegiate in Kitchener was the natural choice. For […]