Learn Any Language
How to Learn Any Language by Barry Farber is an engaging, entertaining and most importantly effective approach to learning any language. He outlines four simple concepts that can have you speaking, reading, writing and enjoying any foreign language fairly quickly. For...
Create a Thinking Space
Life is filled with so many details that it can be overwhelming. The big whiteboard in my office is filled with long lists of things to do and people to contact, the calendar in the kitchen is filled with sports and music lessons, school events and volunteer...
Start Closer to the End!
It’s almost the end of January and New Year’s Resolutions have come and in some cases gone. How do you re-engage the motivation to achieve those goals that seemed exciting and within reach just a few short weeks ago? Setting the goal points our mind to the destination...
Spicy Salmon Cakes
One of my favourite recipes that I discovered this summer is this Spicy Salmon Cake from the Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan by Liz Pearson and Marilyn Smith. It's a great way to add fish into your diet and can be served as a main course or made into appetizer size...
Music – It Can Really Move You.
A recent paper published in Nature Neuroscience by researchers at McGill University demonstrated the effect of "pleasurable" music on the brain through the increased release of dopamine. The groups findings provides "neurochemical evidence that intense emotional...
The Resolutions Club
An article in the current issue of Chatelaine suggests that the best way to follow through on New Year's resolutions is to enlist the help of one's friends. Meet once a month, compare notes, encourage success and stick with the program....and a night out with friends...