Reading Time: < 1minuteI’m reading some reflections by BC artist Jack Shadbolt, and this comment about the loss of childhood innocence really resonated for me: “Every child deserves a modicum of pure ecstatic happiness in his younger...
Reading Time: < 1minuteI feel like a healthy sense of curiosity is the key to living an interesting and vital life. Curiosity is not just something you have – it should be something you do. A core...
Reading Time: 10minutesSince my adolescence, I’ve never had a more than objective interest in religion. As a little kid, I trusted my Dad as I recited the Lord’s Prayer with him at night while he tucked...
Reading Time: 2minutesNot long ago, I revisited an old idea with a friend at work: The Exquisite Corpse drawing game. We wanted to use it as a way to encourage some asynchronous play-activity among members of...
Reading Time: 2minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. This is one of my assignments. Novel, Lesson 3: Activity...
Reading Time: 2minutesFor an online English course that I’m helping to develop, I’m now taking the Student role to do some careful usability and functionality testing. After many weeks of transforming course content from Word documents...
Reading Time: < 1minuteI’m enjoying the MOOC “The Future of Storytelling” (#StoryMOOC). This little video is my response to the Creative Task for Chapter 4 (“Inspirational Week”) The proposition for the task was this: Take a camera,...
Reading Time: < 1minuteThe Eastside Culture Crawl is East Vancouver’s own open studio tour. I don’t go every year, but have gone for many years. It feels good to wander through studio space, smelling paint, sawdust, and...
