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WELCOME TO THE R&R HOT STOVE

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Hot Stove was initially a baseball term says Wikipedia.   My husband tells me that in Canada the Hot Stove actually refers to the hot stoves in the “skate shacks” across Canada where kids would “fry” their wet mittens as they warmed up and wiped their runny noses between stints on the ice in the skate shacks beside the ice rinks that dotted our prairie towns!  Who do you believe?? LOL!  My friend Ross Meek- athlete, coach and former PE teacher would speak about his ‘team’ of colleagues adopting the term to describe their gathering together in ‘Hot Stove’ conversations early each Monday mornings after a weekend of watching NHL teams compete in Canada’s game.  

Each MONDAY MORNING you will find a Hot Stove post here on our website.  The focus will NOT normally be about hockey although the passion of two beautiful young hockey-playing boys named Radek and Ryder was certainly front and centre when the boys were alive and the hockey theme runs throughout the book.  We plan to give the reader further insights into some back stories and delve into our objectives as writers of this powerful narrative.  We will profile the incredible courage of a mother and her counselling therapist in the telling of a mother’s love story.  We will also share the actions of those who have helped a grieving mother in the mending of her broken heart as she continues to work on finding a degree of meaning and mastery since the death of her two boys on December 19, 2016 in a brutal senseless act of filicide by their biological father. 
Sometimes the topics will be passionately HOT like that of a burning stove aimed at stoking your courage to find your voice about things that matter in ending all violence against women and children in our society.  May our words encourage you to speak from the rafters of every arena in concert with our aim to end such violence.   Sometimes hopefully we will also bring a grin to your face as we share our connection on this road as client and therapist since 2017. 

                                                                                                                                                SANDRA YOUNG KOLBUC   ​

WELCOME TO THE R&R HOT STOVE

3/8/2022

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       Hot Stove was initially a baseball term.   My friend Ross Meek- athlete, coach and former PE teacher would speak about his ‘team’ of colleagues adopting the term to describe their gathering together in ‘Hot Stove’ conversations early each  Monday mornings after a weekend of watching NHL teams compete in Canada’s game.  The term Hot Stove itself had originated in the early days of major league baseball where the HOT STOVE season referred to an actual baseball season called the Hot Stove League where players would stay in shape by playing baseball in their hometowns while staying warm with actual hot burning stoves beside the baseball diamonds. Welcome to our R & R Hot Stove!

Each MONDAY MORNING you will find a Hot Stove post here on our website.  The focus will NOT normally be about hockey although the passion of two beautiful young hockey-playing boys named Radek and Ryder was certainly front and centre when the boys were alive and the hockey theme runs throughout the book.  We plan to give the reader further insights into some back stories and delve into our objectives as writers of this powerful narrative.  We will profile the incredible courage of a mother and her counselling therapist in the telling of a mother’s love story.  We will also share the actions of those who have helped a grieving mother in the mending of her broken heart as she continues to work to finding a degree of meaning and mastery since the death of her two boys on December 19, 2016 in a brutal senseless act of filicide by their biological father.

Sometimes the topics will be passionately HOT like that of a burning stove aimed at stoking your courage to find your voice about things that matter in ending all violence against women and children in our society.  May our words encourage you to speak from the rafters of every arena in concert with our aim to end such violence.   Sometimes hopefully we will also bring a grin to your face as we share our connection on this road as client and therapist since 2017. 
 
Many times, there may be tears in your eyes as you read the book.  Hopefully in our conversations we will engage you to learn more about the importance of speaking up when you see things are “offside.” We also hope you will learn more about the R & R Memorial Foundation which supports youth in sport.  We will encourage you to speak up when things are “offside” and may our voices ring from every nosebleed section of every sports venue, from the highest dizzying seats of every concert hall and around every kitchen table when vulnerable children or adults are bullied. The filicide deaths of over thirty children a year in our true North ‘strong and free’ must no longer be tolerated. It is our hope that the HOT STOVE will fire up the consciousness’ of all to end violence of any kind in our circle of influence.
 
 TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY.  What a great day as we honor the power of women to get things done!   And… to put a little extra wood on the fire and make that STOVE extra HOT this week we will have an additional post on Friday, March 11 as we begin this journey.  Then grab your coffee EVERY MONDAY and join us for the scheduled Hot Stove Conversations.  
                                                                                                          Love Sandra                                  

2 Comments
Juliana Dewinetz
3/13/2022 09:19:26 am

Excellent, Monday must read!

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Sandra link
3/14/2022 12:37:51 pm

Thank you Juliana!

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    Sandra Young Kolbuc

    Sandra is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist  who has been in private practice since 1993. As an incredibly engaging speaker Sandra as a storyteller weaves together her adventures as a woman of the earth, a wife, mother, grandmother, professional therapist and good good friend finding joy and hilarity in life coupled with serious reflection on the challenges that exist in life.

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