From now until the federal election Oct. 19, politicians will be jockeying for your vote.

We lead busy lives. Often, it’s easy to forget that small, simple acts of kindness can have a profound impact on others. I was reminded of that recently during a series of speaking engagements in southern Saskatchewan.

Las Vegas recently hosted the Consumer Electronics Show.

He did it. For the past few months in Your Life is Now, we’ve been following Keith Lynch, the investment banker with little previous canoeing experience, but a lot of ambition and audacity to make up for it. On Nov. 29, after six months and 4,000 miles, Keith reached his destination of Dallas, Texas.

In this month's edition of Your Life is Now, we continue to follow the progress of Keith Lynch, the former financial planner with essentially no canoeing experience who decided to paddle from Montana to Texas, a distance of 4,000 miles.

In the last edition of Your Life is Now, we met Keith Lynch.

Call it a whim, a mid-life crisis or even a crazy idea. One or all of these definitions sums up what Keith Lynch is attempting.

I have many heroes. One of them is my friend Dale Sanders. He’s who I want to be when I grow up, and by grow up I mean when I’m 80 years old.

Meghan Chisholm’s grandfather served in France after the 1944 Invasion of Normandy.

Claire Sargenti is a New York City ballerina and playwright as well as the author of Interludes, a vibrant new play that explores the meaning of life and death.