Todd's Old Blog

Category: Personal

  • On My Transformation from Social Worker to Public Servant

    I read somewhere that the (median) average age of entry into the Canadian federal public service is 34 years old.  That fits me reasonably well; this is my second career.  For my first 10 years of “professional” employment I was a social worker, and my speciality was child and adolescent mental health.  It was the…

  • Embracing Serendipity

    I came to work for the Government by accident, or so it would seem. Failure to earn a livable wage as a social worker with a growing family was what drove me from full-time employment and part-time Master’s courses (whenever I could balance them), and into full-time education and voluntary unemployment.  Leaving employment had obvious repercussions,…

  • We Love You Murphy (1999-2009)

    Murphy was born on Thursday Sept 23, 1999 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, and on died Wednesday March 4, 2009, (9 AM EST) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In her early life, Murphy was a therapy dog, providing company to the ill and elderly. However, due to an unfortunate tendency to chew on medical tubes, she was…

  • Welcome to my tiny slice of the Internet…

    Unless you know me via the net or from my shady past 🙂 OR are really just hard up for something to read, I doubt this site will enrich your life in any significant way. In fact, you’d probably be better off having a good, hot shower and reading the instructions on the back of…