by Laurie Swanson | Dec 17, 2018 | Career Blog
I love dictionary.com. They send me a Word of the Day and I am often surprised at how appropriate the word they send is to whatever I am involved in at that moment. Like this week-I had just hung up with a coaching client who was talking about how she did not...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 11, 2018 | Career Blog
“Mom, TI is not a word.” “Yes it is.” “Uh, no it isn’t!!” “TI as in DO, RE, MI, FA, SO, LA, TI, DO from Sound of Music. The words of the notes of music. Each of those are considered acceptable words in Scrabble.” I challenged her and lost. TI was a...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 3, 2018 | Career Blog
Over Thanksgiving the family got out an oldie-but-a-goodie game called Would You Rather? If you have never played the game it basically asks you to choose between two things that are sometimes hard to choose between and often so unappealing you do not want to choose...
by Laurie Swanson | Dec 17, 2017 | Career Blog
September 25th was one of my favorite days because The Voice was back! For me, The Voice is right up there with Super Soul Sunday as the show that moves me whenever I watch. I just feel good. In the first show of the new season, Esera Tuaolo was a contestant. Esera...
by Laurie Swanson | Oct 30, 2017 | Career Blog
On October 17th Gord Downie, lead singer and songwriter of the Tragically Hip, died of brain cancer. The Tragically Hip (TTH or The Hip) is a band of 5 childhood friends from Kingston, Ontario formed in 1984. They have had 14 studio albums, two live albums, one EP and...