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Experience: the gift that keeps on giving

August 6, 2012

Buy experiences, not stuff. That is the sage advice of Wealthy Barber author David Chilton, according to my sister who has been rereading the 25th anniversary of his best-selling book this summer. My sister quotes his wisdom to me just as we are beginning our shared vacation at our lakeside cabin in western Newfoundland. “That’s … More Experience: the gift that keeps on giving

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Head east to ease escalating temperatures

August 6, 2012

Toronto is packing heat this summer in more ways than one. I am glad to have left the escalating temperatures, the kind that causes the mercury to skyrocket and humans to explode. The online Urban Dictionary, when explaining this slip of gangsta slang equates it with carrying a gun, usually a pistol. It also does … More Head east to ease escalating temperatures

Head east to ease escalating temperatures

Finding meaning in the grey scale

May 31, 2012

Sometimes in life you sign up for one thing and come away with so much more. This generally happens to me when I’m looking at life with my eyes wide open, my expectations unfettered. Such was my posture on a recent Saturday when I signed up for a photography course. I had no loftier goal … More Finding meaning in the grey scale

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