“Can I borrow your cellphone please? I’ve locked my keys and phone in the car and I need to call my mom.” I sized up the person directing those words our way inside the New Baltimore, NY Thruway rest area’s snack shop. He looked all of about 17, was a gangly, thin ,6 feet 4 […]
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Open Air Market Fun
By Gillian Pieper | Published:“Would you like to try our raw, gluten-free, vegan, no sugar added, no GMO granola?” I was asked this Summer at the Rosseau, Ontario farmers market. Followed up with, “Gosh you’re probably wondering if there is anything in it other than air!” Let’s help vendors at farmers markets become better sales people on behalf of […]
Read moreSearching for a healthy balance between digital and face-to-face communications
By bhg_super_admin | Published:John Naisbitt, author of the book High Tech, High Touch, once said “At best, technology supports and improves human life; at its worst, it alienates, isolates, distorts and destroys.As I continue to observe my own and other individual’s behaviors around digital devices, I wonder how best to balance my digital usage without becoming disconnected from […]
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