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The Elmdale Tavern – End of an Era 6 Nov 2012 | 01:58 am
I was sitting at the Bridgehead on Wellington when I read the news on Facebook that the Elmdale Tavern would be changing hands and that the last show would be on December 28th. I shared Nat Myles’ sta...
Finding your WHY 14 Oct 2012 | 07:54 pm
I’ve been back from SOBCon NW, a conference held in Portland, for 12 days now. To say that my experience there was life changing is almost an understatement. It moved things inside of me that hadn’t b...
Social Media Etiquette 9 Oct 2012 | 08:34 am
I recently had a client ask me if I had some tips or a good resource to point her to in terms of etiquette for social media. My first reflex was to share an analogy that someone shared with me a long...
School trip to MacSkimming, Ottawa 16 Sep 2012 | 11:20 pm
Aw yellow school buses. Definitely conjures memories of school trips past! I went on a school trip with my daughter today. (And by today I mean last spring – wrote this and it got lost and just found...
Accidental Simplicity 12 Sep 2012 | 06:39 am
A while back I stumbled onto Rachel’s blog The Minimalist Mom. I didn’t have any real desire to commit to a minimalist lifestyle, but I definitely longed for a simpler, more conscientious and delibera...
Through Another’s Eyes 30 Aug 2012 | 06:04 am
In the fall of 2010, I was lucky enough to be chosen to participate in a 100 strangers project here in Ottawa. The photographer in this case was Kym Shumsky. She eventually turned all the photographs ...
My Expedia Customer Service Nightmare 15 Feb 2012 | 01:32 pm
This is a long one – so hold on to your hats. I'm leaving on a jet plane. Or will be trying to anyway... Photo by Bruno D Rodrigues On Feb 3rd, I accidentally booked a flight to the wrong city –...
Why I Am Not Writing New Year’s Resolutions 31 Dec 2011 | 07:21 pm
I won’t be making any resolutions this year. And it’s a good thing I didn’t need a reason to pick myself up and pull up my socks up, because it would have been a loooong year. From hard to identify ne...
Let’s Make it Better Now 28 Oct 2011 | 10:08 am
Rick Mercer’s rant from October 25th, 2011 has helped me to identify something that had been nagging at me about the #ItGetsBetter campaign, something I hadn’t been able to quite put my finger on. Fi...
Bittersweet Blissdom 3 Oct 2011 | 03:23 pm
I didn’t think I was ever going to write this blog post… But on Monday evening, someone asked, in front of a room full of people (people I don’t know very well at that), when my big day was… Later in ...
