Not too long ago I was at a presentation in Ottawa designed to help attendees get a leg up on turning mingling into networking, while making good first impressions, in social encounters. It was led by a couple, ‘experts’ in the field of The Art of the Cocktail.
Rules of practical behaviour and etiquette, to some extent obvious but nonetheless relevant, included: (more…)
‘Out-of-the-box’ Goals to aim for in 2016:
Time to celebrate the end of the year, and be ‘taken’ by more updated clichés (with originals in italics):
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Adaptation, even with recreational activities, is a key life survival skill…
– Cross-country frozen field team pursuit
– Synchronized over skis jumping
– Leftover Christmas wrapping paper bowling
– Black ice driving time trials (more…)
Dedicated to the delirium of the occasion…
There is still so much we don’t know…
Try writing a piece of any length more than a few words, and see if it doesn’t benefit from editing. Whether it’s improving the wording of an image, or trimming excess description in a paragraph, the net effect can improve the picture while moving the narrative along. (more…)
the watch of time 
Memorable Quotes: Tales of Screenwriters – Part Twenty-Seven
Minefields – the obstacle course:
(a) “There is a compartmentalized rejection, and it has to do with gender, and it has to do with age, and it has to do with ethnicity. It’s very subtle, and it’s very unintended. Well-meaning people have a bias that they often aren’t aware of, because they won’t permit themselves to be aware of the bias. No one’s ever gonna fess up to it, and I wouldn’t expect them to.” (more…)
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