It’s a new year and a new decade and time for some new ideas and a fresh start. Unfortunately for me, I’ve got the same old baggage as last year. I’m not talking about the kind you put your socks in either. The same travel issues that left me saying “good riddance” to 2009 have cropped up to greet me in 2010. The delayed flight that I finished last year with decided to hang on and smack me down with my first flight of this year. It’s actually worse because the delay turned into a cancelled flight that left me scrambling for options.

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One of the requirements for participants to be certified to teach the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention course is to pass a comprehensive, written final exam. One of the last questions on the exam queries the exam taker to describe one method they would use to deal with a challenging question from one of their own participants. This was an area that I struggled with at the beginning of my employ as a Professional Staff Instructor.

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Had an eventful Thanksgiving holiday week to say the least. In addition to the usual activities and events, my father had a heart attack. Luckily, it was a mild one and the doctors reported that there was no damage to the heart. He had to have bypass surgery however and that certainly added to our already anxious state. It got me thinking about how precious the Care, Welfare, Safety, and SecuritySM of family and home really are. Our usual Thanksgiving feast and protocol took a back seat to my father’s care and welfare of course. Without that as a priority no one in my family would have felt very safe and secure.

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