Monthly Archive: March, 2009

PayPal it Forward

This is Inocencia. I’ve never met her before but I just lent her $25 through Kiva (an amazing NGO that I’ve blogged about before.) She’s 54-years-old, is separated, has two kids  and owns a small business… Read More

The Digital Universe at Your Fingertips

It’s Sunday morning and I haven’t even had a cup of java yet. It’s safe to say that the following idea almost had me convinced I was still asleep and dreaming about impossibilities.… Read More

You are not a Special Snowflake

  When our boomer parents decided that we should never feel bad about ourselves, did they do us a disservice?   We, the youth of today, have been raised on a steady diet… Read More

Anything But Business as Usual

How a Little NGO named Kiva is Changing the World in a Big Way Serenita Mikaele and I are both 23-year-old females–other than that, we don’t have very much in common. She is… Read More

In Search of Kindred Spirits

Favourite Activities: – Embarking on coffee-fuelled writing binges – Following the news & worrying about the fate of humanity – Listening to CBC Radio…compulsively – Watching free movies at the public library -… Read More

The letter from Ryerson

For the past few weeks I have been checking my mailbox compulsively. I’ve been imagining a meeting room filled with people and paperwork, and only hoping that my grad school application would be noticed, remembered,… Read More

Rexdale, the beautiful

Dear CBC radio, This morning I woke up in my Rexdale home and, as usual, I tuned into your line-up of early morning programming. I was surprised to hear several stories that literally… Read More

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