05 November 2008
Community organizing and politics – bodies, bucks, brains.
President to be Obama has learned, applied and taught us all the best of community organizing. Change comes first from listening, listening to whomever will share their lives and thoughts, wherever they share. Read More...
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07 August 2008
Celebrating the local

Enjoying Ontario's West Coast, especially its hospitality.

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25 July 2008
Nothing like a Friday afternoon polka
Friday afternoon's can be full of surprises. Today, thanks to Jack Orlandi and our Facebook connection, received a video link of our mutual St. Francis High School friend, Mitch Biskup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cRYq3smxA4 As I mentioned in a previous Read More...
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12 July 2008
Parenting is grand!
Owen Robert Mielniczuk joined family and future friends this morning at Toronto East General Hospital. Seven and half pounds, long, pink, lots of hair. Some of it appears to be red like his mom's and several others from both families. His mom's glow from Read More...
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09 April 2008
A New Way for Women to Talk Culture, Politics & Gossip | WOWOWOW
One of the pleasures of working in an environment like ours is the ability to take lunch whenever. WNED, the PBS station in Buffalo offers Charlie Rose. Interesting guests, great interviewer, probing, yet respectful. Some say too easy. Speaking personally, Read More...
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02 March 2008
St. Francis Alumni Mass '08
Yearbooks mark passages. They express hopes, dreams, best wishes. In front of the alter at this year's Memorial Mass for Alumni the display of yearbooks marked the graduation years of those whose names were read. There were the expected and the unexpected. Read More...
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25 July 2007
Advocacy 1-3-3
Attention spans and windows are decreasing. The impact of that trend on social action and public policy is taking shape. This is one group that is riding the current. http://actnow.healthyrivers.org/front Read More...
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26 March 2007
St. Francis Alumni Mass '07
The view is great. Lake Erie stretching out to Canadian shores. When homesick, I would stare out the third floor window, unconsciously reconciling the tensions. On one side the friendships of fellow boarders. On the other family, friends and far deeper Read More...
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18 February 2007
Another view of the hood
Rap Dictionary provides hip hop perspective on city neighbourhoods. Read More...
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09 February 2007
Community Name Tags?
Neighbourhood organizes community name tags as a way to meet each other. Read More...
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