by mvboronowski | Jan 21, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
This is an amazing piece that gives you a sense of just how many of us are wandering around this giant global community. Created by our friends at National Geographic, who apparently are no longer focussed on producing ONLY those yellow academic journal like magazines...
by mvboronowski | Jan 20, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
I have a friend whose capacity to dream inspires me and has opened my eyes to the value dreaming in my own life. Right now, I don’t have a one-year plan let alone a vision for myself in 5 years or 10 years time and as I carry on somewhat aimlessly through life I have...
by mvboronowski | Jan 19, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
My first assignment for a course I’m taking at UBC – it’s called Building Sustainable Communities and is taught by the awesome Sarah Northcott – is to critique the Metro Vancouver Sustainable Regional Initiative (SRI) in about 500 words. I...
by mvboronowski | Jan 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
As a vegetarian I love beans as a hearty source of protein and as a Nova Scotian I love baked beans as a part of who I am. There aren’t too many foods that I grew up with that I still eat but baked beans are one of them. They were made with the “winter beans” that my...
by mvboronowski | Jan 18, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
CLJ Reviews Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen What We Read Skinny Dip is a raucous tour through the swamps, seas and suburbs of Florida. The book reads like a movie. It stars Chaz Perrone, one of the most destructive, lazy self-centred assholes in the universe. Opening act...
by mvboronowski | Jan 17, 2011 | 1000 Community Stories
There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Rat, Wind in the Willows I’m the first to admit that my yachting days a still a ways off, so in the meantime I’m more than content to mess about...
