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Reading

The Kobo eReader – a Writer’s Review

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Indecision took a holiday this weekend and I finally picked up a Kobo eReader from Chapters today (that’s like Barnes & Noble here in Canada, eh). I still have mixed feelings about the damned thing. First of all, let’s get this out of the way. No, it’s not a Kindle, but it’s smaller, has less [...]

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10 Free Online Education Resources

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Long ago, in a galaxy far away, when the internet was still unexplored by most people, and the world wide web was still just a menu item on services like Compuserve, I spoke and dreamed of a time when anyone, anywhere, could get a free online education – degrees earned at home through the marvels [...]

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Thoreau’s Minimal Living

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There were not a lot of comments on my last blog about minimal living, but the emails were flying fast and furious for the last couple days. If you’re interested in minimal living (and if you’re a writer, artist, musician or other such unemployable soul, you should be) a book you should read, or read [...]

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Worst Typos Ever

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Penguin Group Australia will be reprinting 7000 cookbooks due to a typo that is embarrassing for some and an outrage to others that it was ever allowed to be put on bookshelves in the first place. The recipe in The Pasta Bible called for “salt and freshly ground black people”, when it was supposed to, [...]

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The Man Who Planted Trees

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I would like to share this with you. It is often said that with small, daily efforts, one person can change the world. I do not think this has ever been illustrated as succinctly, or as beautifully as the story, The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono. In 1987, Frédéric Back, with Radio-Canada, made [...]

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The Art of Journal Writing

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Daily journal writing is a practice that is invaluable to creating a relationship with the open page, and for renewing your relationship with yourself. This is true whether you are a blogger, a novelist or screenwriter, poet, or someone who just has the need to write down her own thoughts once in a while. Growing [...]

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Three Cups of Tea – a book review

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Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson is an extraordinary story about one man’s quest to make the world a better place, working on one child’s future at a time. After a failed attempt to climb K2, the harshest mountain in the world, Greg Mortenson made a promise to the villagers who saved his life: [...]

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My Heart is Africa – a book review

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Scott Griffin’s book, My Heart is Africa, is one of those wonderful experiences in literature where, after reading it for the first time, you set it aside in a safe place, knowing that you will return to it again and again. Three of my favorite authors are pilots. Most of their best work, in my [...]

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