The Modern Family

The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread [...]

A parental example?

Parents face a new frontier: Setting electronic limits
By Liza Mundy
Thursday, January 21, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012004844.html?wpisrc=nl_tech
This is the end of the article, but I thought especially revealing in the advancement of electronics in the last 10 years. See the link below to read the entire article on some challenges parents are having these days with policing [...]

Haiti – how can we help?

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20100114/FREE/100119923
How can you help those who are struggling with the disaster in Haiti? See below for a 2010 tech savvy way to help immediately!! Then read the article.
U.S. cell phone users texting “Haiti” to 90999 contributed about $4 million to the Red Cross in $10 increments, the largest outpouring of support via mobile [...]

Simple things

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
-Leonardo da Vinci
This past year was full of strife, frustration, challenge and growth and one thing I [...]

Christmas Cheer

So I was thinking of who is going to be on my Christmas Card list this year. Really, my list is usually pretty short as my family is small. I have been contemplating, do you send out more cards to a wider group of people, with a thank you or something short, or [...]

The Jack5ons

“I don’t think people understand the loss of Michael as a brother as compared to a pop star.”
-Marlon Jackson, 2009
I had the opportunity to watch “This is it” the new Michael Jackson movie a few weeks ago. As a movie it was ok, as a documentary and history piece was very engaging. To [...]

Measurement

“Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.” – Jim Rohn, Business Philosopher
There are many ways to measure performance, whether in sports (points, [...]

Par for the course

This article has caught the attention of the entire world…unfortunately. There are more important things going on. But do tell me, why has it garnered so much attention (there are some obvious answers) and what are your thoughts not on what he may have alledgely done, but on how it has been covered [...]

Depression

“Depression is the inability to construct a future”
-Rollo May, American existential psychologist
From reading a recent report on the state of depression in America (and we’ll extrapolate for Canada) 5% of people (15M in the USA) suffer from severe depression, while an outstanding 50% have suffered some form of measurable anxiety over the course of their [...]

Energy

By Jeff Kinch
Colin asked me if I could put together an article based on a very elusive topic for me: energy. Energy is something I seem to be constantly chasing; through nutritional experimentation, futile attempts at getting more sleep and ultimately resulting in mass consumption of Tim Horton’s coffee. Fortunately, having just finished [...]

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