by mvboronowski | Aug 31, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I’ve never tipped my hat to another man walking down the street. It’s not that they didn’t deserve the salutation, but I would have looked like a damn dufus had I done it. Or perhaps it’s just not quite with the times (like the word dufus). With my friends, I hug...
by mvboronowski | Aug 30, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
10 days ago we gathered around a large steaming pot in a backyard. The power was out from a fast moving thunderstorm an hour or so ago. Armed with thermometers, hydrometers, copper coils, vinyl tubing and a handful of books guiding us through the next few hours we...
by mvboronowski | Aug 29, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Congratulations, Canada! Your people take fewer holidays than folks in any other nation on Earth. Even China. That’s right, we here in the Great White North work more hours than people in a country that is in possession of a socio-political ideology that fuses...
by mvboronowski | Aug 28, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Editors Note: This is the second of our “Blast from the Past” series where we feature top Gumboot posts of years past. This story was first posted May 6, 2010. It is among our most popular and quite timely posts. Earlier this year, a friend of mine who is getting...
by mvboronowski | Aug 26, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Last Saturday night, I had the pleasure of attending a Vancouver Canadians game with a group of family and friends. Having spent the last year focused on learning the basic rules of soccer so that I could muster my way through a Vancouver Whitecaps game without...
