Make a commitment to dedicate a certain amount of time or a certain number of repetitions towards a project you care about. Similar to a compass, a pact encourages you to show up and surf the chaos, ...

And, while we were on an art-roll, Lisa suggested we retrieve a large painting from storage and use it to fill up a large ...

Some helpful advice from the postmistress at the Charlottetown Post Office this morning. If you have standard stamps, which right now are $1.44 singly or $1.24 in books, these can be used like this: ...

For Oliver the coming of the mist was transformative; flu vaccine time was still an anxious time of the year, mostly because being in a hall filled with other people about to get a needle is like ...

Subsequent to my email from David Carey, Publisher of The New Yorker I received the following email from Jim Mate, VP - Retail Marketing, Conde Nast Publications: We apologize for the difficulty that ...

Every time I visit Province House I find something new. This time it was the skylights, which I’d never noticed before. They run all the way from the second floor up to the third floor and the roof: ...

To learn more about me, read my /now , look at my bio, listen to audio I’ve posted, read presentations and speeches I’ve ...

“Time to dry” is one of the significant limiting factors when you have just five days of press time, especially when multiple layers are involved. Yesterday, late in the day, the box design evolved to ...

Canadian Tire has now completely switched over to digital price tags, wireless e-ink shelf displays that show the item name, price, and barcode. Under the hood I imagine this both saves hundreds of ...

I was writing to my Dutch friend Frank this morning about his post Renewal. Reflecting on my own move away from paid work 18 months ago, I realized that work, for decades, had been my all-powerful ...

There’s a feeling I get at the drug store blood pressure machine, the feeling that comes from wanting to win at blood pressure. I find myself breathing deeply, trying to will my blood to stop having ...

Because I was raised in an era when we were willing to conceive of mobile devices as servers as much as clients, it’s always bothered me that the ability to mount an Android phone’s storage on a ...