October, 2010 // Articles published in October, 2010

31 Oct Article | 6 comments

It takes all kinds

It was around this time about 15 years ago. I had been working for several weeks on a huge project that was making my days very long and the nights quite short. There simply hadn’t been much time to catch up on sleep. I worked and lived in downtown Montreal. I was walking home from...

28 Oct Article | 3 comments

The lighter side of sporting a label

I want to start by thanking you again for all the fantastic and insightful words you shared on my last article (“I am not black anymore…“). You not only really touched me but also got me to thinking… Today I’d like to share with you some of the lighter side of that label I wore...

23 Oct Article | 15 comments

I am not black anymore…

It happened one day, almost three years ago now, and it was very sudden. Sortof like an overnight success story, you know, the kind where you’ve been working for years on something and then out of the blue you rise out of the ashes and bam, you get hit over the head with an epiphany....

18 Oct Article | 9 comments

They really inspired me!

Wow, I was really moved this past week by some incredibly inspiring work created by the participants of a photography workshop I am giving this Fall. As you may already know, I believe that absolutely everyone is creative and that if we let go of the fear of doing it wrong, we are capable of...

13 Oct Article | 5 comments

It’s not the phone, it’s the iPod!!

I’m sure you’ve had this experience already… I was driving down the highway the other day. The car just ahead of me was weaving in the lane. We were both in the center lane so I decided that I’d move over to the left lane and attempt to pass her so that the weaving would...

10 Oct Article | 15 comments

Please help me confront my fear!!!

I have made a decision…and it petrifies me! And let me get this out of the way right now, I am absolutely mortified by my plan to publicly admit it, here and now, through my magazine. But I have promised myself that I will not only write it out, but I will also publish it. ...

07 Oct Article | 14 comments

How much is trying worth?

Have you ever had that feeling where you seem to have some sort of background process going on, something is bothering you, but you just can’t seem to quite put your finger on what it is? Lately I’ve been coming across situations where I get that feeling and I am convinced something is just not...

04 Oct Article | 4 comments

Please place your item in the bag!

When you stop for a minute and look at the day from a different perspective, as a series of isolated vignettes that we navigate without necessarily putting much thought into them, it can sometimes completely change how we interpret that day. And yet other times, when you just take an objective look at any given...

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Victor Kiam