Stories Create Space for Readers to Think In

Don’t tell people what to think.       Create a space for them to think in. This week I stumbled upon Paula Caproni’s insight into the essence of communicating effectively by telling powerful stories. Something shifted, something deep in the root of my storytelling toolkit. Can you picture communication as preparing to welcome guests [...]

Protect Japan Victims of Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Radiation

My friends are scraping their pennies together to support Japanese victims of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdowns. As jet streams and web streams bring nuclear fallout and news of lives lost from the Japanese triple threat east to North America, donations to the Canadian Red Cross flood in. Hundreds of Japanese and non-Japanese [...]

New Media Maven at PO-MO: Interactive 3D motion and sound

When is the sacred and docile cow not a cow? When it’s a juicy, jamming projection screen for light and sound animation! Blame it on Meghan and the innocent PO-MO bunny, the icon of Winnipeg’s interactive new media maven. Nothing is sacred…anything that can be transformed, will be transformed. A blast of audience controlled visual [...]

The King’s Speech: Fear of Public Speaking Outranks Death

You must do the things you think you cannot do. Why is it so hard? Public speaking, I mean. A great teacher advised me, “you’ve got to put yourself out there”. You have to take a risk, become visible, and make noise to get noticed, if you want a plum job. With three presentations scheduled [...]

Life, Death and Rebirth – Persephone’s Underworld

Explore the eternal story of rebirth in a short experimental film tribute called Winnipeg does Maya Deren from the catacombs of Portage and Main. Homer says Persephone was abducted by Hades to wander the underworld (the unconscious) for six months a year. When she is gone, we light candles, retreat into the bosom of family and [...]

Top Ten Reasons not to start an online home business

NEED HELP TO DIG OUT – HOMEBOUND – FIRST SNOW! Like a teenager catapulting from the gym wall at the high school dance, our first snow day lunged in, caught me by the ankles and knocked me over this morning. (Winnipeg has two seasons, winter and construction.) Until snowplows dig canyons through the drifts hugging [...]