by mvboronowski | Aug 23, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
On Saturday (August 28, 2010), six members of the Potentiality team will be participating in City Chase Vancouver. And it’s gonna be fun! Over the next few days, you will be hearing from members of our hopefully victorious crew about this Amazing-Race-like event...
by mvboronowski | Aug 20, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
As some of you may know correspondent Theo Lamb and I are an item. Many of you might also know that we try our best to keep Friday night as date night. It’s a time for the two of us to spend time together, go out for a nice meal, movie or walk and generally...
by mvboronowski | Aug 19, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
Last weekend, I wrote an email to the Globe and Mail Style contributor, Leah McLaren, in reaction to an article she wrote on Jeggings. It wasn’t so much the subject matter that caught my attention but rather the author’s less-than-kind comparison of...
by mvboronowski | Aug 18, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
MusicFest brings out the best in people (Editor’s Note: this article was recently posted by communications consultant and writer Jody Paterson. It was originally published in the Times Colonist newspaper. However, because it was so topical and co-editor John Horn and...
by mvboronowski | Aug 17, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
I left academia about the same time that I married Jim. He was 2 years into his History PhD and I was signing up for about another 4 years of him being a student, followed by the better part of a lifetime of him being a part of an academic community. Our community...
by mvboronowski | Aug 16, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories, Aboard the Editor's Pirate Ship
According to a new meta-analysis of, well, people-interacting-with-people, social support can increase survival by up to 50 percent! Finally science does something useful and “proves” what historians, hippies and Freemasons have known all along: having a...
