Top 10 Contemporary Signs of St. Patrick’s Day
Remember when holidays pretty much were celebrated on the actual day?
Now, no doubt in part for commercial purposes, promotion has largely turned them into multi-day, if not multi-week, events. (more…)
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Life Lessons from the Winter Olympics
We’ve just had the latest round of the Olympic Winter Games play out in Korea in the latter part of February.
Some nations, particularly the three highest medal count countries – namely, Norway, Germany, and Canada – found relative success after their long journeys to southeast Asia. Other countries didn’t have their usually expected triumphs (U.S.A.), and one wasn’t even able to compete under its national flag (Russia) – so, bigger is not always better. (more…)
Travel Tips
Open any travel related periodical or insert, and chances are that, in addition to glowing enticements to visit sites far or near, there will be some degree of tips from supposed experts. Sometimes the expertise is limited to lessons learned by the author about specific destinations; sometimes it’s more general ‘rules of thumb’ (not the green kind).
Case in point: the spring edition of CAA (Canadian Automobile Association) Magazine devotes several pages to recommending travel locations for 2018, with brief comments from CAA travel specialists. Some remarks are more insightful than others. (more…)
TOP Craft Show Products of the Future
The year-end holiday season is the ripest time of the year for most retailers, providing more customers the chance to satisfy their gift buying goals.
While the ‘bricks-and-mortar’ version of the typical retail establishment has become increasingly usurped by on-line alternatives, there remains an important factor in favour of the former: the tactile experience of checking out items in the flesh. There are times you need to feel or examine a potential purchase before being truly satisfied the cost/benefit analysis works in your favour. (more…)
TOP 10 ‘Black Friday’ Shopping Realities
Tis the time of year for great expectations – on the part of shoppers looking for bargain prices.
Be it pre-Black Friday, Black Friday week, or the day itself, not to mention Cyber Monday, with surely in time more marketing lures to come, there is an aura of ‘spend now, to save later’ in the air. This seems to be going on for an expanding time frame every year. (more…)
TOP 10 Darwinian Halloween Escapades – Inevitably Revised
When the laws of survival collide with the abandon of Halloween… (more…)
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TOP 10 Election Aftermath Realities
Among the truisms of government elections, and candidates’ behaviours, are that many of them are predicated on massage or sublimation.
Such as in the afterglow of Ontario’s provincial election June 7th… (more…)
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