Feb 18, 2016 | Patti's Blog
For a long time, I’ve been an Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) consultant and trainer. Employers come to me to help them solve issues in their workplaces related to risks to their employees that they cannot handle on their own — dangerous...
Feb 11, 2016 | Patti's Blog
They say that when you’re a hammer, everything is a nail, and perhaps that is true. I teach for a living, my mom was a teacher, and so when I look at the issues facing AERC and its future success (and yes, survival) of course I think that the answer is EDUCATION. For...
Dec 27, 2015 | Patti's Blog
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Quote from Hal Borland, American journalist Everyone has a different way of coping. For me, it involves quiet time putting it all in...
Dec 17, 2015 | Patti's Blog
Before we had horses at home, and I was a single girl, I had season tickets to the Buffalo Bills. This was in the days before my time was consumed with horse-keeping, riding stupidly far and sometimes stupidly fast, shoveling horse poop, running my own business,...
Nov 13, 2015 | Patti's Blog
It would be foolish for me to lament this difficult time in my life by suggesting that it is unique, or that I am somehow special. We’ve been blessed with dogs in our pack who have had long and healthy lives, but it also leaves us with heart-wrenching decisions...
