Category Archives: Kitchener-Waterloo Reflections

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Posted on August 11, 2015 by brucelarochelle

Weightlifting provides a means for goal setting not for some company, teacher, or friend. But goal setting for oneself. When someone learns the power of personal goal setting there isn’t much they can’t aim for and reach closer to because … Continue reading →

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Forced Exit

Posted on August 25, 2013 by brucelarochelle

Thought there was one more year at the business school of Wilfrid Laurier University. Had been there 1992-1994; thought there would be 1994-1995. Not to be. Accounting Area recommended renewal. Approval by Faculty Council seemed to be a formality, respecting … Continue reading →

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“My father was a musician. Not so good.”

Posted on May 13, 2013 by brucelarochelle

When a business professor at the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, 1992-1994 (more precisely, assistant professor), was teaching classes where all the students were Ontario Scholars; an intellectual elite, of sorts. Also, for the most part, … Continue reading →

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Midnight Driver

Posted on October 8, 2012 by brucelarochelle

Between 1987 and 1992, was in Montreal and Toronto weekly. Ottawa on the weekends. Family in Ottawa. Doctoral world in Toronto, financed in part by Montreal Concordia association. Ended/suspended in 1992, when the route became Toronto-Kitchener Waterloo weekly (Wilfrid Laurier); … Continue reading →

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Crack In Glass

Posted on September 21, 2012 by brucelarochelle

My doctorate looks at me every day, in my law office. There is a crack that runs through the glass. Says many things. Occasional glass of life. The crack that does not shatter. Frame one’s own meaning out of damage. … Continue reading →

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“I AM the university”

Posted on July 22, 2012 by brucelarochelle

During time at the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University (1992-1994), completed my doctorate and started to develop the post-doctoral research. Was there on a series of year by year, limited-term engagements. When it came to renewal … Continue reading →

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The Overnight

Posted on May 27, 2012 by brucelarochelle

I remember reading about how author John Grisham was able to compose his first novels, while still working full-time as a defence counsel–as well as, I now understand, a modestly-paid ($8,000 per year) legislator in the State of Mississippi. He … Continue reading →

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Daily Focus II

Posted on April 21, 2012 by brucelarochelle

I have written about how important it was to be living near a Catholic church, at the time of the Montreal Massacre. Since the Catholic church, much like synagogues and mosques (and Hindu and Buddhist temples?), is open every day … Continue reading →

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Hand On Shoulder

Posted on March 24, 2012 by brucelarochelle

In 1993-1994, my second year as a full-time business professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, I was living in a sixplex, on the Kitchener side. Always a social statement as to on which side one chose to reside: Kitchener or Waterloo. … Continue reading →

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Empty Offices, Empty Halls

Posted on March 21, 2012 by brucelarochelle

Going to the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa earlier today, to pick up examination booklets for an exam to be given later today. Once again, empty offices, empty halls. Doesn’t seem to matter what time of … Continue reading →

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