What we talk about when we talk about buyers’ pain

By Author | February 8, 2018
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Remember how Vancouver always used to rank top-5 in those most liveable cities lists? Yeah, I know. Most liveable if you have a few million for a house. But still. There we are in 2017. Number 3 according to MSNBC. What doesn’t get mentioned as often is our senior ranking on another set of lists.…

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Does your Myers-Briggs personality type predict Social Media Dependency?

By Author | February 6, 2018

My kid is going through the Science Fair years. In the past he’s done projects on his family history, on friction effects and probably several I’m forgetting. This year he tackled a hot-button topic. He decided to test whether social media dependency could be predicted by knowing a person’s Myers Briggs personality type. I say…

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Negative Empathy

By Author | February 6, 2018

Should writers of fiction review the work of colleagues? I avoid it personally, and my rational for doing is the basis for my side of a debate that was part of the CBC Literary Smackdown series a couple of years back. The other side of the issue was taken by esteemed Victoria-based novelist and nonfiction writer Robert Weirsma, who also writes a…

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FALLUJAH

By Author | February 6, 2018
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The Incredible Story of a Marine and his Opera I received one of the assignments of my career in 2012. 20 years in freelancing. Hundreds and hundreds of published pieces in great magazines. And I finally got my first commission from Harpers. That was a big deal to me. And the story was big too.…

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