Going Over to Dover
Eyebrows raise when I admit I’ve never ridden to Port Dover on a Friday the 13th. …
May 2011
A Pain the Gas
An “expert” is saying this morning that the high price for gasoline is being prompted by a low supply. Well that’s a new one! Until I read this particular article, everything else I’ve read has lead me to believe that we have one of the biggest reserves in the world. We also have one of the highest pump prices in the world for a country that produces oil. And the blame falls squarely on speculators. …
Strange Case Indeed
I’ve previously confessed to following fascinating New York City crime trials. Sometimes the court case concerns a story I wasn’t familiar with but my current mild obsession involves a case I’ve been watching since it first hit the New York Post. …
A (Nameless) Public Shaming
Yesterday on my way into the radio station I encountered slow traffic on what is usually the best part of the ride in. There’ s a lovely wide curve on a decline of Springbank after Commissioners Road and it’s normally ripe for a little acceleration and “wheee!” from my inner child. For whatever reason yesterday, it was stop and go. So I stopped and I went like everyone else. …
Just a Dab
Canadian designer Kimberly Seldon has a new magazine but you won’t find it on the racks. …
Happy Day, Mom!
Yup Dads are stepping up when it comes to child-rearing these days but when my brother Kevin and I were little, looking after the kids was definitely “women’s work”. …
I Don’t Know Much About Fashion
…but I know what I know and I know what I like and I believe that women dress for other women but men think women dress for them. …
Voicing Disapproval
If it’s done well, commercial reading should sound easy. But there is much more to it than just reading , and learning to control and manipulate your voice takes experience. And sometimes you work with a producer who doesn’t know how to articulate what it is they expect from their talent and it takes you to the brink of your patience. …
When the School Bully Becomes a Success
I finally figured it out. Donald Trump is just a grown-up schoolyard bully. …
Overcoming the Mother Tongue
Sometimes I’m asked to read a commercial in an accent and it’s really not my forte. I can get away with short character lines but an entire commercial in, say, British? Sometimes I can, sometimes I can’t. …
A Whole New World
I’m looking for the positive spin-offs of the election results. …
Justice and Revenge
It took nearly a decade but the air is just a little bit fresher this morning knowing that Osama Bin Laden isn’t sharing it. …
How I Am Now
Many have asked (thank you!) how I’m doing now, three weeks after returning to work, following 12 weeks off for recovery from sepsis and its resulting liver damage. …