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Weekend Thing: #GreyCup101 and the greening of our nation

Posted on 22 Nov 2013 in Story, Storytelling, Weekend Things | Comments Off on Weekend Thing: #GreyCup101 and the greening of our nation

They were the first CFL team I ever watched live. It was the summer of 1999 and a live football game was among the many exhilarating new things I was experiencing in my first year of truly living + working on my own in Vancouver, away from my Toronto family. When you watch the Saskatchewan […]

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Art/Design/Visual Friends: pimp my design! #iPhoneCase

Posted on 21 Nov 2013 in Advertising, Customer Service, Marketing | Comments Off on Art/Design/Visual Friends: pimp my design! #iPhoneCase

    I’m thinking about this as my next iPhone case. Any thoughts from my blog-reading peanut gallery? Please feel free to comment design suggestions here. Better yet, here’s a link to the AI file if my design is making you feel twitchy enough to diddle with it yourself on Illustrator. If you’re in that […]

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Movember update: 1 major don’t (ironically) and do for helping depression and anxiety.

Posted on 15 Nov 2013 in Not For Profit, Story, Storytelling | Comments Off on Movember update: 1 major don’t (ironically) and do for helping depression and anxiety.

I made a suicidal situation even worse. Even with really good intentions. A friend had a grad school colleague take his own life, leaving behind his wife and two children. She confided her hurt and her massive whys to me. And I provided the perfectly wrong response. What it was: a cogent explanation of why […]

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Unspeakably tough Canuck loss outlines my 2013 #MovemberMo’tivation

Posted on 06 Nov 2013 in Not For Profit, Story | 2 comments

One could consider it pro hockey’s toughest loss, ever. Especially after two highlight reel career moments didn’t point to an ending like this. Vignette 1: From the very first moment December 21, 2005 marks the Vancouver Canucks debut for a promising young player & former captain of his Western Hockey League team. On his very first […]

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