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What Jip en Janneke Can Teach Us About Storytelling
As I mentioned before, I’ve been admiring children’s books lately. Since coming to Holland we’ve been spending a lot of time in the kids’ section of bookstores, looking for books that will help Olivia learn Dutch language and culture. Lots of fun! I’d like to introduce you to one of this country’s favourites. Jip en…
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Our Very Hungry Caterpillar
Since the arrival of Olivia (one year ago Saturday!) I’ve had a greater interest in children’s books, and have realized that some of them have some really amazing artwork! The large pages and often very simple images make for some really cool imagery. One book I’ve been admiring recently is Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry…
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Postcards from Schiermonnikoog
Greetings from Holland! We spent the past weekend with (most of) Anna’s family on Schiermonnikoog, a small island off the coast of Holland in the North Sea. The island is a protected nature reserve, home to about 1000 people and thousands of birds, whose beaches are wide and streets virtually car-less. We rented bikes as…
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The Mesh: The Biz Model That Shares, Listens, and Saves the Planet
Just finished reading Lisa Gansky’s new book, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing, a great book which explains a new and rapidly growing model of business that takes advantage social networking technology and growing desires to save money and help our planet. What is the Mesh? In Lisa’s words, “The Mesh is the…
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Making Your Blog & Newsletter Work Together
You know the importance of keeping your people up to date, but never have enough time. After all, who has time to stay on top of writing weekly blog posts, putting together monthly or quarterly newsletters? Or maybe you’re putting the time in, but get annoyed with having to write every story twice, first for…
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You Can Change the World: TED Talk by Nancy Duarte
A couple months ago I got my hands on Nancy Duarte’s new book, Resonate. Duarte recently spoke at TEDxEast, and released the video of her 18-minute talk. Nancy Duarte’s talk at TEDx East from Duarte Design on Vimeo. “You are not the hero who will save the audience; the audience is your hero.” – Nancy…
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Ending Slavery: Book Review
Last month I shared a documentary with a youth group about the Karen people of Burma who are victims of much abuse, including slavery. We were moved by the stories of despair and hope and left with the natural and necessary question, “What can we do to help?” This question, which I have asked many…
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The Flight Brochure
One important parts of day is my space “in the margins” during my walk to and from home each day. Lately on the walk I’ve been listening to Patrick Dodson‘s podcasts on Identity (you should check them out here!). In these workshop sessions he says that while most of us make decisions about who we…
