I recently attended a conference of the Association for Independent Information Professionals in Cleveland, OH with the theme Taking Charge of Your Business. Here are five of the many things I learned. The common wisdom is to have a plan of action for when we fail. An uncommon wisdom is to have a plan for [...]
May 20th 2010 | Posted by Norma 
Spilth. This Word of the Day in the Ottawa Citizen caught my eye and I liked it so much I wanted to share it with you. It sounds exactly like its meaning which is: something spilled or freely poured out. But, you immediately knew that, didn’t you? A sentence using this delicious word is from [...]
April 21st 2010 | Posted by Norma
My eyes were opened to facts about corn after reading Much depends on dinner by Margaret Visser (New York : Grove Press, 1987, ©1986). I hadn’t realized before I read it how important corn is to the world’s economy nor how wide-spread its use. Corn is used in more than 3,000 products from clothes to [...]
April 3rd 2010 | Posted by Norma
I remember, as a kid, a welcomed interruption to school days was a film borrowed from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Those were the days of reels of film which broke or became wonky after many viewings. Well, things have changed! Early last year, in honour of its 70th anniversary, the NFB launched [...]
