“Sell yourself or die,” is the mantra in these times. Whether it be for a new job, or to merely survive in your existing one, promoting one’s latest book or new product, running for election, finding a partner, getting noticed amidst the myriad of media distractions; even the dead have coffin styles from “pauper” to […]
Everything is going global these days and outsourcing is de rigueur. Manufacturing and software development, once residing in safe havens of the developed world, now go to emerging tigers in Asia, who in turn, getting a taste for what is possible, are trying to climb up the food chain into the more lucrative niches of
I did the math on organizing a writing contest and wondered if I was sitting on a hidden goldmine; should I turn my struggling career from writer to writing contest organizer? First, I need a snazzy title, something like “The 30th Annual Emerging Writers Gold Awards Contest” (no need to worry about the prior 29
When the Canadian Dollar reached over $0.90US last year, I bought lots of US dollars convinced that our loonie was overpriced and could never sustain this high. Then of course, that oily loonie soared to $1.10US at one point and I groaned at my stupidity. Today, our poor buck dropped below $0.80US and I am
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Now that the dust has settled on the federal election and hurricane season is almost over down south and the carnage on the financial markets has subsided to a “Ho, hum – so what did the TSX drop down by today – another 600 points? Ho, hum,” • welcome to the morning after. We are
On past election mornings, be they federal, provincial or municipal, I used to rouse my household. “Come on – we’ve gotta go and vote!” “Why?” would ask my sleepy 18+ year•old sons, who always had more interesting things to do. “Because we came to the land of the free where the right to vote is
There is a fear out there, balanced by a countervailing reality. The fear is that our workforce is aging and knowledge skills are being lost and all efforts should be made to retain mature workers and ease them into retirement only when well into their geriatric years. The reality is that whenever there is a
A writer John B. tried for years to get noticed in the field of literature. Alas, there was so much content floating about in the literary world at the time that he could not attract anyone’s attention. Then he went silent and dropped out of the scene, and the few readers who had read his
I had a dream. An old man was dropping objects from a bag into a lake. I seemed to be able to read his mind. The first items to go in the water were a cricket bat and a ball; they eddied and floated away. “Goodbye little friends, and thank you for the joy you
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When I was a child in my native Sri Lanka, if someone on the street looked up at the sky, within moments, many pedestrians followed suit, even though there was nothing up there. We used to play jokes on people by stopping suddenly in the middle of the street and looking skyward, knowing that in