Archive for the ‘Hoping’ Category

You say you want a resolution?

With the New Year comes new res­o­lu­tions, goals you set that are meant to give your life struc­ture and mean­ing against the dol­drums that we call “January”, “February” and “Smarch”. We al­low our­selves to in­dulge in so many sins dur­ing the hol­i­days be­cause we re­ally be­lieve that on January 1st, we will crawl out of […]

A Change is Gonna Come

Barack Hussein Obama, an African-American and son of a goat-hearder from Kenya, was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America. Read that sen­tence a few times and savour its de­li­cious­ness as it rolls off your tongue. In a coun­try whose iden­tity was shaped in large part by slavery, racism and a blind fear of the different, this is truly a mo­men­tous and his­toric occasion. Only a cold, cold heart […]

StandUp For Your Sisters

We in­ter­rupt reg­u­lar blog­ging for a spe­cial an­nounce­ment… I was ap­proached by my BFF Daniela Saioni (and I don’t use that term loosely — we’ve been best friends for over 30 years!) to vol­un­teer my pub­lic re­la­tions skills (such as they are) to a fundraiser she is or­ga­niz­ing called StandUp For Your Sisters. I am proud to be as­so­ci­ated with this project […]

Niagara Falls: It’s more than just water

I wrote this ar­ti­cle for the November 2008 is­sue of Ontario Dentist, the jour­nal of the Ontario Dental Association. The sub­ject of the piece, Dr. Mike Lococo, is a won­der­ful man who is try­ing to make a dif­fer­ence in his com­mu­nity. I have pub­lished this on my blog with the per­mis­sion of Ontario Dentist. Be Our Guest Dr. Mike Lococo Lights […]

Obamarama

If I had to as­sem­ble the top ten rea­sons Barack Obama should be President, this would def­i­nitely be on the list: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOWlpvOPKXc] This was taken from the YouTube ac­count for BarackObamadotcom. I love the fact that so­cial me­dia is be­ing used in the race for the pres­i­den­tial election.

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