Mary Black Bonnet offers an in-depth look the modern and traditional dress of Lakota women— beyond the buckskin stereotype of Pocahontas cartoons.
Archives for August 2010
How to Respond to the Building of Controversial New York Mosque
Nathan Thompson reflects on some of the vicious and destructive comments by people who are against the building of a Cordoba House mosque and Islamic cultural Center near Ground Zero in New York.
Life As A Human Likes #5
This week, we feature three terrific authors who have well-read blogs providing sound advice and insights that can help with your business life as well as your personal growth.
BlogHer…or Blog Blur: From Personal to Public (Relations)
When it first launched, the BlogHer conference was an inspiring place for woman (and male) bloggers to meet and connect in a friendly, informative atmosphere. Has the conference become a victim of its own success and sacrificed some of the personal appeal?
Stranger Danger
Margaret Blackwood remembers when kids were free to roam their neighbourhoods without fear of abduction by strangers. She also remembers her first encounter with a potentially dangerous stranger.
Girl Meets Canada: Ode to the Awesomeness that is Jackie
Our intrepid cross-Canada girl traveller heads to Moose Jaw, which has an elaborate system of underground tunnels that were used for a variety of nefarious activities over the decades. “They are now total tourist traps, and have two theatrical tours that most suckers have to pay to see,” she writes. “But not me!”
Have You Googled Yourself Lately?
Many people won’t admit to Googling their own names, but our writer George Burden not only admits to the somewhat narcissistic practice, he also says it can be fun to discover all the people who aren’t you but who share your name. So have you self-Googled lately?
A Visit Home
In this evocative post, Hippy Urban Girl writes, “I want to return home even as I know that the home I want to return to is gone, evaporated into the cycle of death, returned to the earth, the sand and becoming a part of a different story carved out of a piece of driftwood.”
Abandon All Faith, Hope and Charity, Ye Who Enter Here
Many of us learn the virtues of hope, faith and charity as we grow up. But how do those virtues really serve us through our lives. As Victoria Klassen discovers, there’s a flip side to everything.
Simplifying, Stage 3: Persistence
In Part 3 of his series on simplifying life, Lorne Daniel draws the connection between the persistence of long distance runners and the persistence required by humans to make significant changes in the way we live.
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