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[6 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
UPS Luggage Box – Ship It Instead…

Pack your stuff in a box instead of a suitcase? Not a crazy idea. Actually, we like it a lot… I see several advantages to the UPS Luggage Box. I like the concept of shipping my luggage instead of lugging it around through airports.
There are indeed some good reasons to love the Luggage Box:

Stick your tongue out at the airline companies for making air travel so unfriendly by diverting the luggage fee to another type of “shipping” company. UPS promises competitive rates with that of the airlines.
No standing in long cattle lines to check luggage at airport. More time for [...]


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Growing - Life More Profound »

[2 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Summer Reading – “The Climb of My Life”

By Audrey van Petegem, Senior Editor
We all have the stack of books waiting to be read.  I have mine on its own shelf in the family room.  There sit all the books I plan to read this summer (yeah, right…). One such book  that I have been wanting to read for a while was finally selected by our book club this month. It’s Kelly Perkins’ book (a fellow yoga student), titled “The Climb of My Life, Scaling Mountains with a Borrowed Heart“. It is based on her true life experience needing a heart transplant at age 32 and how her [...]


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[1 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Handwriting, the Digital Way

This new campaign for Pilot pens just came out. “Type on a computer with your own handwriting” is a way of romanticizing the handwritten note and quite a clever attempt to invigorate what might appear to be a dwindling market: the writing instrument… You know, with most of us being permanently glued to our computers, the handwritten note has now become a rare sighting.
 
 
It’s a charming idea but this particular application didn’t really work for me and it does not create a downloadable font. Now that I was teased with this idea and really wanted my own downloadable personalized handwriting [...]


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