Category: nature
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Indomitable
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This painting of a chickadee comes from Erin Forestell, symbolising the arrival of Spring and the continuation of hope.
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This
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: a duck at Richmond Park, England last spring
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Home
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Guischican House in Kelowna, Canada
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The pandemic’s impacts on assistants around the globe
More of Shelagh’s conversations with professional association leaders around the globe In yesterday’s post, I brought you opening thoughts from leaders of international and domestic professional associations. Today, we’re looking…
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Communicating remotely? Tips on TEAMS
Are you or some of your colleagues working remotely and sorting out how best to communicate? Have you heard of others using MS Teams software, but you’re not sure how…
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Generalizations
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: Spring time in Kitsilano!
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Pandemic insights from professional association leaders
A global check in I live in Vancouver, Canada and published an article yesterday, May you live in interesting times, providing a look at some of the pandemic’s impacts where I…
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May you live in interesting times
May you live in interesting times You may recognise this old saying, which sounds positive but can be intended otherwise. Well, we certainly are living in interesting times. In Vancouver,…
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Music
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: cherry trees coming into blossom this last weekend at Vancouver’s Van Dusen Botanical Garden
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Does COVID-19 have you preparing to WFH? Here’s a checklist
Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had home offices as idyllic as the one in this image? I know that’s not the case, and that many assistants right now…
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Lucky
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: shamrocks, in honour of Saint Patrick’s Day
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Possibilities
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: hellebores, floating in a round barrel
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COVID-19: A special series, beginning with Italy
Regular readers know how significant I believe our networks are to assistants. With COVID-19/the coronavirus dominating our lives of late, I consider myself fortunate to have been able to reach…
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Cybersecurity: phishing in the time of COVID-19
As we reach the conclusion of what may have been a tumultuous week for many, here’s something else to keep in mind. Some of you know of my interest in…
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Connected
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: early March crocuses
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Begin
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: walking in NYC’s Central Park, the Bethesda Terrace arcade and its gorgeous Minton tiles
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Knock
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: walking along Paris’ Avenue de l’Opéra on our last visit, this beautiful (tall) door caught my eye.
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Shake
A thought for your day, featuring photography from my travels. This shot: It’s technically still winter in this hemisphere, but you’d never know it from these magnolias and the other…