Feliz y Prospero Ano Nuevo

Happy New Year, Dear Readers, from the southern most tip of Mexico, where the sunshine is plentiful, and the sea is beautiful if intimidating.
 
 
Our adventure of living in simplicity for six months got off to a grand beginning on December 14, when the snow began to fall as we were frantically doing our last-minute packing. [...]

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Dinner with 12 Strangers

One of the newest tools to try to connect university alum and ultimately, to maintain or start the flow of much-needed funds, is an event called “Dinner with 12 Strangers.” It appears to be just what the title implies.
I received this heads-up from a MSVU alum and thought that it might be interesting for those [...]

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Canada Reads 2008

The Canada Reads competition list has been announced, and certainly the taping is already finished. Folks at the CBC, the panelists and the publishers know who is the winner. The rest of us won’t know how it all plays out until the spring. That’s fine though because we all need some time to read the [...]

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