The Christmas season is upon us and the subscriber contest is now concluded. The winners have been notified, so check the e-mail address you entered with to see if you won and to send us your address so we can snail mail some goodies. The winner of the iPad mini is one Tammy S., and… Read more »
Scholarship name: CFI Scholarships Sponsored by: Corporate Finance Institute Deadline: December 31, 2017 Potential payout: $500 Eligibility restriction: Applicants must be studying in Canada at the bachelor, master, or doctorate level, must demonstrate financial need or hardship, and have a passion for finance. Applicants must also have a LinkedIn profile. What’s required: An online application,… Read more »
Virginia Woolf was born on January 25, 1882, in London, England, and died March 28, 1941, in Lewes, Sussex, England. Virginia was an English novelist, critic, and essayist. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a scholar who spent time as editor of the Cornhill Magazine as well as the Dictionary of National Biography. When Virginia… Read more »
There are many pros and cons to being enrolled in six courses. I started at Athabasca University in November of 2016 and at the end of 2017 I will have completed 14 courses. That’s about one course per month. The pros to doing this include finishing my degree sooner, never losing momentum, and never forgetting… Read more »
Have you healed your emotional wounds? Dreamed nightmares about your emotional baggage, luggage lying open, spilling over with your private stuff? Recently, I griped about how peanut butter bunged me. But a week before, I begged for peanut butter to get more fats in my diet. Fickle, I now abhorred the nutty spread. Minor issue? … Read more »
Book: The Vimy Trap or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War Authors: Ian McKay and Jamie Swift The Battle of Vimy Ridge was part of the larger Battle of Arras in northern France during the First World War. Between April 9th to 12th, 1917, four Canadian divisions wrested control of the ridge… Read more »
If a professor punished lateness to class by making you sing opera, what would you do? Hide under the lectern while whispering Marylin Monroe-style, your head paper-bagged? Or rent a karaoke machine, sport a belly dance dress, and don a Lady Gaga wig? Some of us would do the latter. Truly. Proof of point: I… Read more »
Have you ever suffered sleep disturbance because of a mind heavy with thought? The thoughts may be disturbing if the underlying issue is serious. If someone is worried about a dire diagnosis, job security, money trouble, cracks in a relationship, or the perennial favourite—the meaning of life—the angst is real. The thoughts that consume us… Read more »
“I’m paralyzed, living your lies I saw the devil in your eyes You put me down, you let me die Because you buried me, buried, Buried me alive” – from “Buried Me Alive” by Ovtlier, What Doesn’t Kill You Ovtlier is a metal band based in Rochester, New York. Their debut EP What Doesn’t Kill… Read more »
Dear Barb: Hi, I recently put my dog down and now I’m wondering if I did the right thing. Tasha was a ten-year-old miniature schnauzer with lots of health issues. For the last two years she was on several expensive medications and they really weren’t making a difference in the quality of her life. When… Read more »