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...
by mvboronowski | Aug 25, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
There are few organizations that I like more than 826 National (and all of their regional affiliates, for that matter). The organization combines writing, community and pirates. Few places/people/things/nouns have established such an utterly perfect Venn Diagram. In...
by mvboronowski | Aug 24, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
Disc golf makes me happy. So much so that a game at Little Mountain, our local course, is always a first stop for guests visiting Vancouver. When we’ve got friends coming into town, my partner and I meet them at the airport, head to Queen Elizabeth Park, crack beers...
by mvboronowski | Aug 23, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
[Editor’s Note: in 2006 I hosted an event that was playfully called “Mervillemania” – in a nutshell, a few dozen friends camped-out on my parents’ estate/compound in Merville, British Columbia during the August Long Weekend. One of my...
by mvboronowski | Aug 22, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
It’s no secret that, first, superhero communities – such as the X-Men, the Justice League of America, Canada’s Alpha Flight, and The Avengers – are pretty darn awesome. It’s also no secret that, second, The Potentiality’s editorial...
