Cervical Cancer on your mind?

I am not a woman and I do not have a cervix BUT the issue of cervical cancer is a very serious issue and one that brings with it a bit of controversy. Here is an interview I did on DubaiEye during the Nightline show. I spoke with Charmaine D’Souza and Dr. Amala. Find them on [...]

Career Plans?

How much career planning are you doing or have you done? I know several people who have mapped things out and have pretty well followed the road-map. My plan has been pretty haphazard and gone more with luck, intuition and chance. What if your career was only really destined to last 4 years? It was [...]

Hugh Says it! My Role on DubaiEye’s Nightline

Keep records.

When I did my Ph.D a whole lot of time was spent in the Canadian Archives going through memos and letters and very random pieces of paper. Today, because of the digital environment we live in we spend far too little time collecting the bits and pieces of our lives that become a very interesting piece [...]

For the love of the pen.

One of the activities I love to give my students is the good old final exam. Yes there is an element of torture in sitting a final as it does bring on stress and all sorts of anxiety. But there is another side to the written final, and I am not talking multiple choice, a [...]

Taking the big leap

I love the way all too often we look around and we assign blame. I love the way that all too often we look around and imagine that the way we are doing things is because of someone else. I love the way we brood and complain and loath but do nothing to change things. [...]

The Experience of a Sandwich

A sandwich is a sandwich, or is it? This little hot turkey sandwich not only tasted fantastic but it brought together the entire family in the creation and eating process. Food isn’t just about fuel it is about experience.

Sometimes The Old Way Just Works.

It is amazing how simple things like shopping for fish have become an exercise on sanitization. The experience has become a hands off exercise where we point at fish that is packed on ice and wait for the sales associate to pull on gloves and grab the critter for us. Not that I don’t like [...]

It is all about connections…

I think the beauty of social networking is the ability it has to bring strangers together to collaborate, or people who would not normally work together. I would love to see how I could use the collaboration model to create content on my radio show or in my own classes. Heineken has done something that [...]

Hughisms are Great.

I love it when a student says to me, “that isn’t professional”! What is professional? I think professional is code for normal and normal is what? Status quo! I have said it before and will say it again, we need to teach our youth to embrace but explore ideas. Normal is a receipt for failure or [...]

keep looking »