My father was the strongest man in the world. His forearms were Popeye's forearms. His legs were tree trunks. When he walked into a room,...

My daughter and I had a chat about her English and Drama classes en route to school this morning. Specifically, we talked about voice and...

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Risk is a board game I played regularly many moons ago. The objective of the game, in short, is world domination. It's a game of...

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IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,...

What follows is the text of a presentation I made last October to a group of Heads at a large-schools conference in Virginia Beach,...

Don't blame numbers. It's not their fault. Numbers don't lie… put enough of them in the hands of the wrong people, though, and they can...

I woke up last night with unusual clarity in recall of a dream. No dancing sugar plums, I promise. Be warned, though. This one's out...

Heading home from a journey to Hogtown earlier this week, my wife and I listened to a CBC interview with Oliver Burkeman, author of the...

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done...

The National Hockey League is at risk of losing the full season, owing to a player lockout by the owners. As Jimmy Buffett once said...

For me as a Canadian kid, one of the few redeeming elements of Winter was the gigantic hill of snow created at our school by snow plows....

Dear Mr. Dixon, The 'takeaways' from my work are many. I could talk all day about what I've learned from conducting surveys… and do so...

Disclosure: This is a bit of a walk around the barn. Pour yourself a coffee… It's interesting (to me, anyway) how we receive new...

A couple of years ago, my wife and daughter and I meandered across British Columbia by the voice of a GyPSy. GyPSy is a portable tour...

At breakfast one day last week, our twelve year old announced rather sheepishly that she was a little concerned about an upcoming quiz in...

Thirty-six years ago, light years before the duffel bag met the wheel, I heaved mine over a shoulder and trudged off to explore the world...

About four weeks ago, I was having dinner with a good friend at a wonderful Italian restaurant in Vancouver. Conversation being what it...

"Are you juror 2776?" "Yes, Your Honour." "You're a consultant?" "Yes, Your Honour, self-employed." "And you travel internationally in...

I don't read fiction. The experience was spoiled for me 30 years ago when, as an English major, I was tasked with dissecting and...

If you did not attend the awards dinner at last year's Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto, you may...

Walter Isaacson Late last night, I finished reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs. Let me cut to the finish line right...