Kaitlyn Schmidek

Written by: Paula Drouin, Founder and Director of ADR International Group Inc. and ADR Learning Institute Do you feel honored by the invitations you receive? To be invited to a birthday or Thanksgiving dinner or simply an invite to hang out with someone. If you receive many invitations and have a lively social life these invitations may have become commonplace and appear of less value than they are. As we age, we often receive less invitations than in our earlier years. I remember a time when responding to invitations was just a to-do item I had to fit into [...]

Photo: Walking in Canada viewing the USA across the water taken by the author. Written by: Paula Drouin, Founder and Director of ADR Learning Institute (with some research help from Gemini) Unless you live close to a border between countries, you may be oblivious to the unique impacts changes in national relations can have. I am working in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario this week among people who spent decades driving across the bridge to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Just to pick up a few things, have coffee with family and friends, go berry picking.  People who are used [...]