“Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Six years ago, I came across a line from an old poem that punctured my present moment so profoundly it seemed to stop time. On an average Tuesday, there I was, sitting at my desk, ignoring the stack
Long before the Kardashians and the Real Housewives, Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey dominated the nation’s airwaves. In the early 2000s, Jessica Simpson was a bonafide A-lister who attracted paparazzi attention in a similar vein to her contemporaries Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears. Like the others, it wasn’t her singing, acting, or dancing
On Tuesday, the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC) announced the Mazda3 as the Canadian Car of the Year exclusively on The Morning Show. According to Stephanie Wallcraft, president of the AJAC, the Mazda3 is the first car in the history of their 40-year program to be a back-to-back winner. “This is the 2020 winner
On this episode, I chat with Cal Newport about his fantastic new book, A World Without Email. We chat about: How the cost of email is higher than we realize The differences between “asynchronous” and “synchronous” ways of communicating, and why they matter Cal’s idea of the “hyperactive hive mind” How email scrambles our thoughts
1. Karma is about teachings and time Karma is complex and there are so many misconceptions surrounding it. The mainstream culture has its interpretation that likes to romanticize life and believe there is a reason for everything. This is often because we can’t do the best of what we have been dealt—our personality, desires, environment,
“Being attracted to someone’s way of thinking is a whole different level of attraction.” ~Unknown I have been divorced for ten years now and thought it would be fairly easy to find “the one” once I was set free from the ties of the wrong one. To my surprise, it has been harder than I
A lifeguard fired for simply doing his job well was honored by his city. A life in danger 21-year-old lifeguard Tomas Lopez was on duty in Hallandale Beach, Florida when a beachgoer alerted him to someone drowning. Lopez immediately ran to the scene. Once he arrived to the scene, the swimmer was already on land.
A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular Captain Underpants series is being pulled from library and bookstore shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.” The book under scrutiny is 2010’s The Adventures of Ook and Gluk by Dav Pilkey, who has apologized, saying it “contains harmful racial stereotypes” and is “wrong
Making an impact. Something that I have aimed for, for as long as I can remember. Whenever you read about someone making an impact, you always hear the same thing. Someone somewhere at the age of 12 started a non-profit. A person on your Instagram feed has a new clothing line dedicated to the orphans
“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t.” ~Rikki Rogers A friend recently asked me: Andi, where does your strength come from? It took me a while before I had a good enough answer for her. I sat contemplating the many roads I’ve traveled, through