I’m going to be stopping in to Algonquin College as a guest speaker tomorrow. I’ll be speaking with students in the Advertising Program and the particular course is Professional Practice, which is described like this:
Attitude, communication, and human relations are the key to surviving in the ever-changing world of advertising. This course helps you prepare for workplace success by providing [...]
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March 8th, 2010
If you were an Algonquin College Advertising student
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March 8th, 2010
Winner of the GCTC tickets!
I was so pleased to see the interest in blood.claat — a unique and fabulously performed piece — playing at the Great Canadian Theatre Company (GCTC)!
I entered everyone’s name into random.org to come up with a winner’s name (and no, Kaitlin, you weren’t too late!) and the winner is: STEPHAN.
Congrats! I am sure you’ll have a wonderful night out. I [...]
March 7th, 2010
The Winter Resolution series: Bush party! (shhhh … pass it on)
When I was a teenager, every so often word would spread that a “bush party” was going to take place on the weekend. Unlike the “house party” which took place at some poor unsuspecting parent’s home while they were away, a “bush party” involved no house, just a location in the woods somewhere.
The two types of parties still shared some [...]
March 6th, 2010
Extra! Extra! Read all about it …
Good morning! If you don’t normally buy an Ottawa Citizen newspaper, pick one up today to support not only your local paper but this caffeine-needy writer!
In today’s Travel Section, I have two articles for your morning coffee:
#1: What a woman wants: how hotels can cater better to women business travellers and a list of hotels going all out to do [...]
March 5th, 2010
Destructive cycles (+ ticket giveaway to blood.claat, a play @ Ottawa’s GCTC)
She’s a 15 year-old kid in a school uniform. And she’s just given birth to a baby conceived through violence. That is her story. But it’s also the story of her mother. And her grandmother before that.
This is a cycle that’s fairly common in Jamaica, according to a 2006 Unicef report:
Approximately 20% of births are given by adolescents. In other [...]
March 3rd, 2010
Excuse me, but you’re stepping on my Canadian pride
An open letter to Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney:
I don’t ever remember a time when I did not feel proud to be a Canadian. It’s similar in fierceness to the pride I’ve always felt for my family. It runs right to the core.
I drink my Double-double’s at Timmys, I buy my backpack from MEC and I bite my [...]
March 3rd, 2010
Maybe a puppy wasn’t such a bad idea, after all?
Last year, we lost Riley. Riley was our family dog. The puppy my husband and I adopted the summer we moved into our first home together. We had Riley for five years before any children came along. And in total, we had Riley in our lives for a decade. For anyone who’s had a pet, you know what kind of [...]
March 1st, 2010
The Winter Resolution series: I did it!
The last item on my winter resolution list was: “Go on winter hike in the Adirondack mountain range.”
It certainly seemed a lofty goal for a book-worm gal like me, but hey, I put it out there in writing on my blog and while I don’t mind being a private wimp, I don’t like being a public wimp. So off we [...]
February 26th, 2010
Forgiveness
My daughter celebrated the sacrament of first reconciliation this week. This is one of a series of sacraments that one progresses through in the life of a Catholic, which start with baptism and continue on to marriage. For this sacrament, one confesses their sins and then one receives forgiveness from God.
Although I find myself unable to believe in a God [...]
February 23rd, 2010
Faking It
During an interview with Kira Vermond, who pens a column called “The Money Shrink” for Chatelaine magazine, I explained to her that I had sworn off saying “I’m not good with numbers” … or variations thereof.
Not only does it sound dippy and stereotypical, but it’s not true. Sure, I’m no math genius. But I’m also not completely inept either. In fact, I’d [...]
February 21st, 2010
Dani is feeling indignant
How do I know that Dani is feeling indignant? Because she wrote last night, and I quote: “am going to bed on a wave of righteous indignation!” on a public online space — Twitter.
Did I ask her permission if I can quote her on my blog? No. Why would I? It was a Twitter post — publicly available for anyone’s [...]
February 17th, 2010
Olympic dreaming? Not a chance.
In a world where parents are increasingly beginning to question the benefits of overscheduling their children in organized activities, the Olympics reaches right into a parent’s heart and makes you want to fire up that mini-van and start signing cheques. Almost. {read more}
February 13th, 2010
That was kinda sucky, wasn’t it?
I hate to say it, for fear of sounding unpatriotic, but Canada’s opening ceremonies for the Olympics was kinda, well, sucky. Starting with the snowboarder entry that was cheesy and far too long. In fact, most of it just seemed like it went on too long for its own good.
So much so that when K.D. Lang launched into crooning her melancholy lyrics:
Your faith was [...]
February 9th, 2010
The “Vacation”
I’m currently sitting in a beautiful suite in a resort hotel with access to two of my favourite things – but luxury version. The first, high-speed internet access – but in a quiet space that is not full of unsorted laundry, sippy cups and mountains of toys. The second, sleep – but in an enormous bed with high-quality linen and [...]
February 5th, 2010
Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids
Did you catch this CBC documentary yesterday?
I got a heads-up from Ann Douglas’ blog at parentcentral.ca that it was coming and I was intrigued. In her review, Douglas concludes that this “hyper-parenting” phenomenon is largely a thing of the past:
The documentary is worth watching, if only as a reminder of where we’ve been and how far we’ve come in rejecting the [...]
