by mvboronowski | Jul 6, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
This weekend my partner and I were travelling around Portland, Oregon. It was the July long weekend and we thought quite naturally, what better way of ringing in the 4th then watching Transformers 3. After all, it’s got all the bells and whistles, US flags and lots...
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 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...
by mvboronowski | Jun 29, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
This is a post about the vancouver riots, sensationalism in the media, the plight of youth in a chaotic world, nega-community, and how they all fit together in a ridiculous way. It will take you a while to get through it all – and your head might spin –...
