Personal Improvement – Feel Better, Live Better, Be Better!

  Everyone is always on a mission for personal improvement, or at least they should be. Self-improvement isn’t any easy task; I don’t care what anyone says. You can’t achieve personal improvement without some old fashioned hard work.   All of the self-improvement / personal improvement books, recordings and seminars all boil down to some … Continue reading Personal Improvement – Feel Better, Live Better, Be Better!

How do Great Writers Come up with Brilliant Ideas?

  As a writer, I’m sure you have struggled with how to come up with a great idea for a story. You aren’t alone, it happens to all of us. Some writers will assume that since they aren’t coming up with a good idea they have writer’s block. This isn’t the case because writer’s block … Continue reading How do Great Writers Come up with Brilliant Ideas?

Free Radicals How Antioxidants Protect Against Them

  In the descriptions of several of our premium tea blends we include the fact that they are an excellent source of free radical fighting antioxidants. We also go on to explain a few of these crucial benefits to your health.   We all know that antioxidants are good and help provide several health benefits … Continue reading Free Radicals How Antioxidants Protect Against Them

The White House – America’s Most Iconic House is Haunted

  It is the most iconic house in the United States, if not the world. It is home to leaders of the free world. The most famous address in America, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is also the country’s most famous haunted house.   Guests, staff members and even Presidents themselves have all reported hearing unexplained noises, … Continue reading The White House – America’s Most Iconic House is Haunted

Zombies: The Popularity of the Undead

  With the recent increase in popularity of zombies, I thought it would be interesting to dig up (pun intended) some history about our “undead” friends. A zombie is defined as, “a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.”   The first zombie movie was White Zombie, released in 1932. The … Continue reading Zombies: The Popularity of the Undead

On Ben Affleck and Slavery

I would like to share an article with you which I really enjoyed.

Matthew Barlow's avatarMatthew Barlow

A few years back, I was contacted by the producers of Who Do You Think You Are?, a popular TV genealogy show, to help them with an episode.  The show was predicated on tracing the ancestry of celebrities, attempting to capitalize on the boon in genealogy amongst the masses, and was based on a popular British version.  For an upcoming episode, they were working with Rosie O’Donnell, whose Irish ancestors had passed through Montreal, living for a time in a long-defunct neighbourhood in the city’s east end.

So I met with people from the show when they came to Montreal, spent the good chunk of a day with them, showing them what mid-nineteenth century architecture in the city looked like, using Pointe-Saint-Charles in the stead of this defunct neighbourhood, which was destroyed by the expansion of rue Notre-Dame in the 70s.  Not surprisingly, the majority of the Montreal part was excised…

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