Knowing that we have friends all over the world on Kamazooie... I could not help myself but to discuss the snow falling outside. After many weeks of bleary brown, grey and a white hazy dust on all the vehicles (salt dust from the roads)... we finally have a beautiful white coating of snow outside. In fact, this morning my two sons and I were digging out Anu's car, and clearing the driveway. It took almost two hours to clear it all. Fortunately, we are all in good shape...…

First of all, I'd like to thank Charles for his post about my debut novel and for inviting me to join this community. Charles has asked a few interesting questions which I'd like to share over time.

Now back to the question :)

Well, let me tell you a little story because it’s funny how often that question is asked: "What inspired you to…

For us its going to be a great day this coming Sunday. How can beer, nachos, chicken wings and the biggest game in football be a be a bad thing.

For a warm-up, I thought I would post the best Superbowl ads of all time.  There's a lot of great memories here including the 1984 launch of the Macintosh and Michael J. Fox getting not one but two Diet Pepsis for his new neighbors. …

As with other forms of businesses, starting a great photography company is really a very effective way of making an extra income. The reason being lots of people are prepared to give a bundle just to have quality photographs particularly for their events such as parties, corporate events and marriages. Thus, it's can be profitable to start a photography business and combine your hobby and part-time business interests.

 

Starting an excellent photography…

I must admit that I am becoming preoccupied with Artificial Intelligence as of late. I absolutely loved the recent movie "The Imitation Game" in which Alan Turing invents one of the first electro mechanical computers to help win World War II. A was also amazed by "Interstellar" in which several computer AIs were portrayed as fairly key characters.

But Artificial…

Greetings Kamazooies and Happy Friday!!!

I would like to repost with a vengeance today. After a recent personal setback, I found myself looking for inspiration today and I came across a great Forbes post on 10 Golden Rules for Living the Good Life.…

Greetings Members!!!

Here is a beautiful post from a blogger named Micah Baldwin on Medium which is another blogging site like Kamazooie for users to tell there stories and share their experiences. Its a post about his grandmother who lived a great life and loved telling stories about it to anyone who would listen.

https://medium.com/@micah/your-stories-are-safe-fd9bb18b057c

Micah…

Greetings and Happy 2015!!!

Three years ago, I started blogging on this site. I have written of some more serious topics and I have shared lighter and hopefully enjoyable stories and experiences. My New Year’s wish this year is somewhat of bridge between more serious topics of faith and…

Please learn from my mistake!

For the past few years, I have not given my insurance policies much thought. They are fine... and covering us without issue. We rarely have made any claims (rear ended one year - though), and our driving records have been clean. All told, I have really not had much reason to scrutinize our insurance…

Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season!!!…

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Have a happy and peaceful family season :-)

Charles

Almost Christmas! Almost there! Almost have all my gifts picked out… but should there be one more I am considering?

For the past few years I have been the President of the Product Marketing & Management Association for Toronto (TPMA). Having been a business or product marketer for most of my career, I often looked back wishing I had had someone there to…

Last weekend I made my yearly trek to IKEA to pick up the Christmas tree. This year, my orders were to find that fattest, most robust and healthy looking tree I could locate. I am not sure if that was a back-handed way of saying that my previous Christmas tree picking expertise was just not up to snuff (exasperated!).…

I am back in University. In mid life? At my age? I can't believe it...

It was brilliant! I stumbled across someone at a seminar a few month back. We chatted briefly about how they were not satisfied with their career, and decided to take a few college courses to update their skills, and course adjust their career path. It was a brilliant idea, as I reflected on…

One of the nice things that starts to happen as the nest begins to empty out is that you are able to start turning your attention to "the bucket list". This past October, Loreen and I picked San Francisco and the Northern California wine region of our list and we certainly were not disappointed. While our San Fran tour was very nice, save for this shot from the bay, I want to focus this posting on our wine country visit.…

Every year, if it is at all possible, my good friend Simon Ralph and I find a way to connect. I came to know Simon during my almost 5 year tenure at IATA in Geneva and he has become a close and life-long friend.

Largely, we have managed to find a way to do this...either Simon will visit Dubai or I will visit Switzerland. This year it was the latter, as I had a…

Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you view it, I can't say that I have a parent or grandparent that served in a world war. I guess that it is a great thing that we can say that we have generations of families that have not been involved in a war.

However, this year, in Canada, after two soldiers have fallen on Canadian soil within the last few weeks, all of us are reminded about the brave souls who protect our great country both inside our borders and throughout the…

The CBC has long been a source of great content with shows like As it Happens, Quirks and Quarks and now the infamous Q.

I would LOVE to see or hear the CBC host an interview show where Jian Ghomeshi is interviewed by his "lovers". Now this would be great Canadian programming :-)

P.S. I'm not judging whether he is guilty or…