by potential | Sep 3, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories, Business & Entrepreneurship
Hello dear Gumbooteers, and welcome to another odd feature of Germany’s new job world: co-working spaces. This most recent development targets freelancers and self-employed people and thus mainly affects the “working poor” of the communications business. I guess...
by potential | Sep 2, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
If you don’t believe me, check out these numbers I came across on the Government of Canada’s website. I did the math myself. If you started to walk the length of Canada’s coastlines from the Strait of Juan du Fuca on the West Coast to the Bay of Fundy on...
by potential | Aug 31, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
If you haven’t already gathered from my previous posts (examples: 1, 2, 3), I really love tomatoes. And over the past couple of years I’ve made it my mission to make sure that I never run out of tomatoes. There are two parts to my infinite tomato formula. (Year...
by potential | Aug 19, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
Last weekend, I wrote an email to the Globe and Mail Style contributor, Leah McLaren, in reaction to an article she wrote on Jeggings. It wasn’t so much the subject matter that caught my attention but rather the author’s less-than-kind comparison of...
by potential | Aug 17, 2010 | 1000 Community Stories
I left academia about the same time that I married Jim. He was 2 years into his History PhD and I was signing up for about another 4 years of him being a student, followed by the better part of a lifetime of him being a part of an academic community. Our community...