Prince George, BC This week I’m here in Prince George, smack dab in the middle of British Columbia facilitating a two day roundtable conference on economic opportunities for Aboriginal communities. There are people all over BC here, and we’ve been treated to a performance tonight from Juno nominee (and new friend) Marcel Gagnon as well as tastings of the wines of Nk’Mip, North America’s first Aboriginal winery. As fun and interesting as all this is, today’s proceedings were stolen by several acts of overwhelming generosity. It all began in the evening news part of our program, during which I invited …
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My four-year old son: Mom? My wife, Caitlin: Yes? Son: You know when you get really old? Caitlin: Yes. Son: And when you’re just about to die? Caitlin: Yeeeesss…. Son: Just in that moment… Caitlin: Yes? Son: Can you tell me where your wallet is? The kid’ll do anything for an advance on his allowance!
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Skypable? Is that a word? At any rate, I’ve finally got with the times and signed on to Skype. So feel free to find me and get in touch.
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Kelowna, BC One little conversation with Seb, and suddenly every link in my aggregator is about the blog economy! Here’s one from Crooked Timber, but it doesn’t get to the bit about blogs AS currency
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Kelowna, BC Had a great evening yesterday with Jeremy Hiebert here in Kelowna. Grabbed a couple of pints of Guiness, some supper and then took in a great hockey game between WHL rivals Kelowna and Seattle. Kelowna won in overtime. And of course, like all recent meetings with other bloggers we talked about all kinds of interesting things, including learning, education, community, story, work and family. Meeting J was just like getting together with every other old friend you hadn’t seen for a while, except that I had never met him before. One of the conversations we had is resonating …