by mvboronowski | Jul 5, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
One month ago, I accidentally bought a canoe. Jim and I only went to “look” at canoes and ended up leaving the store as owners of a green Nova Craft Prospector. In the months leading up to that unplanned purchase we had been toying with our summer vacation plans,...
by mvboronowski | Jul 4, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Labels are bad. But then again, we love them. Oh, do we ever love them. Without labels we couldn’t classify things and fit them into the hierarchy. Everything has a stepped grading system of better and worse. How else would we know how to value things? Hmm? And don’t...
by mvboronowski | Jul 3, 2011 | 100 Community Builders
Who are you? I am Sarah Maitland, literacy enthusiast, and I run fun literacy programs for kids in East Vancouver. My most recent project is the Writers’ Exchange, a creative, safe space where students will work on literacy projects with the help of volunteer...
by mvboronowski | Jul 1, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
My visits are always chock-full of three main super-calming, super-fulfilling, super-soul-satisfying things: 1. Nature. My parent’s place, which was the site of Michelle and my wedding last year, is nestled in the woods of Northern Vancouver Island. When...
by mvboronowski | Jun 30, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Infographics are in right now. Our major Canadian news stations and papers – notably The Globe and Mail and CBC – use them to communicate information on a seemingly daily basis, bloggers and social media folk love them, and the business and professional world is...
