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About the Author: Bryan Davies is a writer and conflict resolution expert based in Whitby, Ontario. His company, ZASwonderwords, reflects his experience as a lawyer and veteran basketball coach, and provides a comprehensive range of multi-media consulting services centered upon effective communication.
Bryan's personal portfolio includes hundreds of articles concerning sport and business. Bryan recently served as a principal author for the publication, The World of Sport Science (Thomson Gale, 2006), and serves as a regular contributing advisor to Lerner & Lerner, Academic Editing and Publishing, and LernerMedia.
This is a continuation of Bayou Bryan and the Huba Buba Classic – Part 2: Natchez. Everyone has stood waiting at a starting line. The start is the metaphor that resonates through every channel in which our lives flow. Bad starts, great starts, fresh starts, false starts – starts lead to finishes, alpha and omega. [...]
This is a continuation of Bayou Bryan and the Huba Buba Classic – Part 1: The Office. Now we find ourselves in Natchez, Mississippi on road to the Huba Buba Classic where we stayed at Hotel Erola. The Hotel Erola was both a faded Art Deco masterpiece and a relative architectural newcomer to Natchez. The [...]
My office is not the typical Canadian home business tax haven. It is the place where I wage my daily battle for effective self expression against deadlines both editorial and self imposed. There are no claims made here for 25% tax deductibility on every imaginable residential expense. Those are the same 'offices' described with exactitude [...]
Thinking can be such a struggle sometimes. My sophisticated teenage children will tell you without much prompting that I apparently gave up this battle some time ago. In our amphetamine paced world, where speed usually trumps sense, our much stressed brains need relief. Its synapses harness the power of the peerless microprocessor – reasoning, planning, [...]
Our son Thomas has many sporting enthusiasms, a good thing at age 15. Some of them, like the Ultimate Fighting Championship, are the sort of televised brawling that leaves the old man a little cold. These huge UFC warriors are brave and the fighting is clearly real, but I have my suspicions that the UFC [...]
I am an inveterate map reader. My taste in maps runs from the everyday and the utterly utilitarian to the wonderful and the whimsical. I have happily indulged myself with route maps in bus shelters; I have fixated upon great cartography, like the route maps of Lewis and Clark, or the atlases of the world. [...]
