There’s been a lot of people finding inspiration from books this past year. In the wake of Julie and Julia there’s one woman making over a dress a day on a $1 budget, and another who’s committed to wearing one dress every day for a year.  Not surprisingly,   Elizabeth Gilbert’s best seller, and now major motion picture Eat, Pray, Love...

I don't know what's been going on in your hometown lately, but here in Toronto Canada we had a weekend full of violent protests. Police cars set on fire, windows of shops smashed, and approximately 900 people arrested. All of this was due to the G20 summit, which cost billions of dollars, not including the collateral damage. Unfortunately most...

No one ever said marriage was easy, but for four decades Al and Tipper Gore made it work. They survived arguably one of the most controversial presidential campaigns of all time.  They survived sort of winning the presidency and then graciously handing it over.  Al Gore found a new direction in his professional life and was able to laugh about...

They say that love often blossoms where there are common interests.  What if the interest is a brand? Everyone knows someone who is an Apple enthusiast.  Whether they’re a fan, or a  fanatic  a group in California wants to help them find others like them.  Will your dating life also be “designed by Apple in California”? The new site...

Online, authors can rarely predict what kind of feedback they will receive on their writing. One of the articles on our site, "Help! My Husband Doesn’t Want Sex!", has quite unexpectedly received well over 200 comments so far! Another very popular article (that has somewhat taken us by surprise) is "What is true love?" on our student's site,...

“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.”  ~ Author Unknown When I was in university, Professor Szabo told us “Scientists will tell you that the world is made up of atoms, but they’re wrong.  The world is made up of stories.”  She might have been quoting someone else, but of all the things...

Although we might  hesitate to admit it, many of our beliefs and values are subliminally shaped by our culture. As Valentine's Day approaches, it's worth thinking about the ways in which our view of love has similarly been shaped ... for example, in the movies we watch. See if you can identify the movies these famous quotes are from: (The answers...