I saw this Woody Allen movie twice this summer and was moved each time by the beautifully imagined and realized journeys into Paris of the 1920s and, more briefly, of La Belle Époque taken by the protagonist Gil Pender (played by Owen Wilson), a screenwriter and aspiring novelist with a strongly romantic bent. How seductive […]
Archives for December 2011
What is Success Anyway?
” What I am saying is this: the score is not what matters. Life does not have to be regarded as a game in which scores are kept and somebody wins. If you are too intent on winning, you will never enjoy playing. If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. […]
Amazing Medical Stories – A Book By George Burden
Amazing Medical Stories – A Book By George Burden. A fast moving collection of medical stories to tell around a blazing fire.
What Was I Thinking? Towards a More Realistic View of Motherhood
Guest Author Lara Perzoff is throwing off her rose tinted glasses, embracing her sense of humour, and exchanging her idyllic view of motherhood for something just a bit more grounded in reality
Drawing Back to Take a Running Jump – A Book By Lorne Daniel
Poems of family, of place, poems of loss and startling discoveries. This new Selected Poems collection by Lorne Daniel brings together the best of his published poetry. In the words of international award-winning poet and editor Gary Geddes, “Poetry is the caring-place, where the people, places, values and music come together. In Drawing Back to […]
The Eventual Planifesto: The Most Bestest Guide to Eventual Productivity – A Book By Mike Vardy
The Eventual Planifesto is a gateway to a life of eventual productivity. If you’re tired of the constant changes in productivity systems that the Internet promotes and produces, then you’ll get a kick out of this satirical take on the subject matter, written by Lifehack editor and noted productivityist Mike Vardy. […]
Nova Scotia Fishing Culture
Five years before the first permanent European settlers arrived in Lockeport, a lone man named Josiah Churchill set out from Liverpool in his small boat with little aboard but some fishing equipment and his pet pig. When he reached the island that is now Lockeport, he found a Mi’kmaq tribe called the Sibinisks, set up […]
Freedom’s Just Another Word – A Book By Dan L. Hays
My life was spinning out of control. A force was at work I could not understand. I was trying to put pieces together, to remember – some whisper of a memory, about my Dad, when I was young. I was broke, unable to go look for a job, down enough to think about ending my […]
Race Against The Tide
The people of Kangiqsujuaq in Canada risk death gather mussels … under huge blocks of ice. From Human Planet: Arctic – BBC One
Raising the Retirement Age in America is Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
How is America planning for retirement? A challenge for both elderly and young people, author Martha Sherwood discusses some of the intricacies of raising the minimum age for collecting Social Security benefits in the United States.