About Me

Randy Bassett

I live in Hamilton, Ontario, where I have for most of my life. I have had too many jobs to track as well as a few different career paths, but for the past 14 years I have been self-employed. My company does computer software and website design and development. My son says I am a geek – I’ve been called worse!

Of all the jobs and titles I have had, two are my favourites. I am lucky to be a husband to Sue, the woman who means the world to me. I am also the father of 2 teenagers, sources of endless insanity ... and love!

Outside of work and family, I am proud to be a co-founder and co-chair of a local charity called Opening Hearts. This charity focuses on supporting children with special needs and their families. My wife and I have a daughter with special needs and Opening Hearts was born out of a need to give back to the community who helped us out. It was also born from a need to give meaning to our challenges and help others in similar circumstances.

It is the same driver behind the start of this blog.

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Discovering hope ...

... Discovering my way

About the Blog

View From the Edge

For so long I have been troubled by the choices that haunt so many youth and adults, especially around drugs and suicide. I'll be opening up my past to show that I have been there and there are ways out. My hope for this blog will be to:

  • Show teens and youth that there is hope, there is a light
  • Help parents understand these challenges facing teens - from both sides
  • Help teens and adults break from the chains that hold them back, to move forward with more freedom and peace.

I am not a psychologist, therapist or anything like that. I will not have any special treatments, ointments or magic pills. I am quite simply one who has been where some of you might be now and by sharing my journey, I hope I can help.

This blog has been on the drawing board for a while now, but it has been a lifetime in the making.

Standing on the edge