People retire all the time – today is my time
People retire all the time—today is my time. I’ve been asked what it feels like: I say, it’s like a blind curve on a dirt road, and you’re in ...
Category: Hope Mission
Fundamental Ignorance
The following is a kind of polemical poem, written against myself, inspired in part, in edging close to the end of a 25-year career in social care with Hope Mis...
These are their names – remembering the people of our inner-city who died in 2014
If we walked through Edmonton’s inner-city, sometime during the past year, we may have passed Jim Boskoyous or Harry Botteril or Randy Brent, Coreen Cattlemen, ...
Meet Edmonton’s Bethany Hoffman – learn of her labour of love
Here’s a fact: Edmonton is populated by—blessed with—open-handed and warm-hearted people. I suspect that for the most part we know this, it just doesn’t get the...