It’s the end of January. Do you know where your New Year’s Resolutions are? In fact, do you even know what your New Year’s Resolutions are? We started out with the best of intentions. But unfortunately, for most of us the busyness of our lives means that we haven’t been doing so well at following… Read more »
The night before the blackout protests on Wikipedia, Reddit, and other information sharing sites, a friend of mine posted the following status: ?Maybe the Mayans were just predicting the blackening of Wikipedia.? Exaggeration? Maybe not. This columnist wasn’t so far from the truth when he joked that without the online information giants, we’d be under… Read more »
2012 is a big anniversary for The Voice Magazine: we’re in our 20th year of publication! To commemorate this milestone, we’ll be celebrating all year with special content that gives glimpses into our past, outlines some of our history, and showcases some of our highlights. This week we’ll go all the way back 20 years,… Read more »
Happy New Year! Are you ready for 2012? It’s a big year for The Voice Magazine: 2012 marks our 20-year anniversary, and we’ll be celebrating all year with special content reflecting the past two decades of history that have made The Voice what it is today. And what better way to start off our look… Read more »
This editorial first appeared February 11, 2011, in issue 1906. With February 14 just around the corner, the card companies, chocolate manufacturers, and florists are out in full force. With all that comes the inevitable barrage of Valentine?s-related media, ranging from romantic classics marathons on the old movies channel to pop psychology articles encouraging us… Read more »
?Let there be peace on earth,? country crooner Vince Gill sings, ?and let it begin with me!? It’s a song from my childhood, lyrics that come back to me every time I hear the phrase ?peace on earth.? This Christmas season, I’m finding myself humming it much more frequently than ?Jingle Bells,? ?We Three Kings,?… Read more »
Holiday cravings settling in? Surf the web this season, and you’ll be overwhelmed with articles, blog posts, and Tweets full of tips and tricks to avoid growing your own Santa belly. Overindulging in treats isn’t the only seasonal pitfall we have to contend with. Yet It’s harder to find similar tips for avoiding a different,… Read more »
Found any great deals lately? It’s strangely ironic that one of the biggest shopping weekends in North America?beginning Black Friday?coincides with the final weekend of Financial Literacy Month, a push for greater awareness of where our money goes and how to manage it. It’s no secret that an increasing number of North Americans have no… Read more »
Quitting has always gotten a bad rap, but often It’s undeserved. In fact, sometimes it takes undertaking a project or life change to figure out where you want to go?and then quitting the project to get there. Every November, I’ve felt the urge to join in the craziness that is NaNoWriMo. The phenomenon?National Novel Writing… Read more »
You’re out for a run, enjoying the autumn scenery. Then you notice that a fellow jogger is showing signs of a heart attack. What do you do? Well, Kindergarten taught you well: in an emergency, call 9-1-1. But sometimes the emergency personnel can’t get there as quickly as might be required?and those first 10 minutes… Read more »