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 [...]

Social Media Identity Game: find yourself online

Blurring the lines between who you are today and who you want to be is desirable, like taking a car for a test drive before you commit. If you don’t like who you are, supreme makeover online costs nothing. Or does it? Experiment and improvise online Social iteration, the constructing of new selves online, is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]