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You Only Have Two Shoulders

Whenever people ask me who my biggest inspiration is, I tell them my grandfather.

It’s not that I don’t have other people in my life who inspire me. There are many.

My wife, for facing up to her everyday battles. My friend Sam, for his tireless pursuit of saving the lives of our kids. My kids, for their constant kindness to others around them.

But for the sheer impact that someone has had on my life full stop, from childhood to adulthood, it’d be my late grandfather.

After all, any man whose...

Can We Stop Calling It Blog Commenting Now?

Think of the last time you got together with friends, or family, or even colleagues from work.

You enjoyed the company, you laughed, you caught up on missed life events, and – hopefully – had a really good time, right?

As you reflect on that time together, there’s probably a good chance that the key takeaway for everyone is that you all enjoyed both the company and conversations.

Because, let’s face it, conversations – and those that help make us more educated, or filled in, or even better pe...

We Are Not Free From America’s Hate

Last weekend, the city of Charlottesville in the U.S. saw an eruption of violence, led by hate, bigotry, and white supremacists.

It led to the murder of a 32-year-old woman named Heather Heyer, and dozens more injured, when a speeding car was deliberately driven into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters.

Two state troopers also died, when the helicopter they were monitoring the situation in crashed and burst into flames.

Demonstrators on both sides were injured as fights broke out, and pepper s...

Oh Noes, Google+ is Removing Its Share Counts

/endsarcasm

I could just leave this post here, and it’d be enough for my take on the news that Google+ (yeah, remember that?) is removing share counts from its sharing button.

Much like Twitter did a couple of years back, Google’s platform will no longer show how man times your post or article has been shared on its network.

And, as expected, content creators are making all sorts of noise about this loss. Which is understandable, given they make money from a social sharing plugin, amongst oth...

When Is Enough Enough?

Today, we saw the “leader of the free world” (although, let’s be honest, that mantel has been passed to someone more deserving) single out a group of people because of their gender choice.

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

….Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive an...

Because We Never Failed

As children, we have unbridled aspirations.

We dream to be astronauts. We dream to be explorers. We dream to be princesses. We dream to be the world’s greatest sports star.

We dream.

Looking back at our childhood dreams, we rarely feel we failed because we didn’t become the astronaut. Or marry the prince. Or found new lands. Or had stadiums cheering our name.

Instead, we look back and remember a time when dreams had no limits and anything was possible, even if, in reality, it never was.

Yet w...

A New Adventure – Joining Kayak Online Marketing

If you’re in the inbound marketing space, you’ve probably heard of Kayak Online Marketing.

Located in the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta, Kayak Online Marketing is one of the leading inbound marketing agencies in North America.

Under the leadership of CEO Randy Milanovic, Kayak has consistently been recognized as a leader in the space, with features in Forbes, Inc., CTV News, and more.

As of June 26, I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be joining Randy and his team as Director, Brand Strat...

Craft Beer and WordPress? Don’t Mind If I Do!

So it’s been a little quiet here the last couple of weeks, as I’ve been revamping not only the presentation/design of this blog, but also launching a new project.

As a result, blogging took a little bit of a back seat (at least on here), but I’m done and dusted on getting everything just so, and now it’s back to business as usual (it says here).

So, if you’re interested in craft beer, or revamping your own site (or building a new one) on WordPress, this post might just be for you.

Hello America. Remember Us? The World?

We used to look up to you. Hell, we gave you the keys to the Free World.

You were our hero. We wanted to be like you. We bought into your culture, your way of life. Your way of being.

Yet now? I think we’re breaking up.

Sure. Our relationship has been stretched for a few months now. But we thought we could rein it back in.

But we can’t. You’ve changed too much.

You’re no longer the one we fell in love with. The one we looked up to. The one we knew we wanted our children to be like.

And we ge...

Telling 5-Year-Old Kids They’re a Failure is Bullshit

Over on Facebook, I saw a post that shared a note that had been sent home to parents of kindergarten kids in the U.S.

The note referred to the reading program in place to learn district sight words. This is a program where kids can learn common words that they will then recognize instantly.

Words like and, of, is, to, and there, for example.

Our kids have a similar program here in Ontario, Canada, and it can help them learn new words and sentence structures.

However, what our kids don’t have...