Water is a Human Right: UN and Manitobans care about First Nations in Canada

Water is a Human Right, posted with vodpod A couple of public relations students and I did some digging in the muddy, flood-infested Manitoba backwaters. We came across some hidden bones we thought deserved a spotlight. We got angry, and we got inspired…to create a public service announcement about the plight of our fellow citizens, the [...]

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 [...]

Polar Bear lost to Global Warming: Billy Connolly booms about Arctic Oil

Polar Bear loses to Global Warming: Billy Connolly booms about Arctic Offshore Oil Drilling Bonanza I get chills up and down my spine when someone like Scottish comedian Billy Connolly traces the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Circle at Canada’s extreme north and drops a bombshell. The Scotsman travels by dog sled and fishing trawler [...]

Instinct to survive

We are survivors. We wear winter in Winnipeg like a badge of honour. The rules are: water flows down hill, in winter rivers freeze and geese fly south. If you break the rules of winter, you pay a price. Or, do you start a new trend? Despite friendly Manitobans like the little grey-haired couple that [...]

Animated Amiga Tribute by Eric Schwartz

Amiga is alive! Listen to an inspiring story of survival, created in Amiga and riding the crest of the technology tsunami. wordbone 1st collector for Animated Amiga Tribute by Eric Schwartz Follow my videos on vodpod

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 [...]

Hello world!

‘evening all! Wordbone signing on for the first time, so gimme some love till I get the hang of blogging. As a student of the word, I’m  digging up the bones, writing down the bones and burying a few I would rather forget. For starters, a talk I shared with a couple of friends at [...]