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Beg Steal or Borrow 15 Oct 2010 | 05:30 pm
I grew up in a small town. It was a good place for kids and families to live. We could go out for the day and leave the house unlocked. My dad would park the car in the yard and leave the key in the ...
A Mythical Tale 26 Jun 2010 | 07:36 am
Hummingbird and Dragonfly were resting in the branches of a purple-flowered shrub. “Timethief is hoping to choose a Favicon and she has narrowed her choice to the two of us, “said Hummingbird. “Yes,” ...
Creativity and Aging 1 Oct 2009 | 06:09 pm
All of us are born with a natural inquisitiveness. When we are children, we are all creative. We experiment with everything around us in order to learn. But early in our lives, not coincidentally arou...
Small Footprints, Gentle Hands 21 Aug 2009 | 04:12 pm
Every day, I find myself thinking about the world and what we humans are doing to it. What other creature on this earth generates so much by-product from daily living? Answer: None that I can find. Th...
Lifelong Learning 18 Jul 2009 | 09:34 am
In the past, the brain was thought to become static as we age. Recent research has shown that the brain has plasticity, or the ability to form new neural pathways throughout our lives. As we age, it...
Canada Day Reflections 2 Jul 2009 | 09:41 am
Canada is 142 years old today and it is a national holiday. At 6 am this morning, my Blackberry alarm started to bleep. “Why is the alarm going off? It’s the weekend,” I thought. A fog of confusion ...
The Boot List 28 Jun 2009 | 06:01 pm
Not too long ago, the idea of a “bucket list” was popularized by a movie of the same name. The idea behind a bucket list is to compile all of the things you want to do before you die and then get them...
It was the third of June. Two weeks ago. 19 Jun 2009 | 06:07 pm
I’ve always had this thing about the Mississippi River. It all started with Mark Twain and the discovery of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on the family bookshelf when I had just ...
Blog walking and other pastimes 10 Jun 2009 | 06:19 pm
I was out on a long and rolling walk with my friends and our dogs the other day. After about an hour of walking and our usual meandering conversations interspersed with quiet reflective gaps, one of ...
Imagine 25 May 2009 | 06:30 pm
I am very taken by Playing for Change, a multimedia movement that seeks to bring people of the world together through music. It is a beautiful concept. I’ve featured a Playing For Change video on an ...
