Lest We Look Like We Forget
I don’t suppose today is the day to crab about the lapel poppy, so I’ll just say it needs a redesign. …
A Lesson In Patience
This morning I arrived at a four-way stop with a van at the stop to my left. …
House Proud: Kids Are Decorators Too – Nov. 7, 2008
When I was a little kid, I was all about the colour purple. Sure, now they’re showing purple as the hot hue for fall fashions, but there was a long time, perhaps decades, when purple wasn’t so cool. Back in the day, my babysitter Kathy was a Donny Osmond fan (to put it mildly); Donny loved purple, which begat Kathy’s puppy love for purple, which in turn begat mine. …
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Real Women Gathering
My affiliation with Real Women Magazine is something I’m very proud of. Real Women was started from scratch just a few years ago by Shelly Wilson, a brilliant, energetic pro with an entrepreneurial spirit. As the mag. has grown, it’s spread from London to KW and beyond and through subsciptions booked online, it’s now province wide. The website, www.realwomencanada.com, shows where it wants to go – nationwide. I’ve been the “She Said” in the “He Said She Said” advice column for many months now and I’m also contributing major feature articles to several ’09 issues. …
Just One Of Millions
This morning, I signed up to become a 680 News Insider Club Member. …
The 44th President of the United States
Barack Obama seems to be a class act. He’s a compelling speaker and a bit of a rock star in politics. He’s smart, photogenic and the closest thing to John F. Kennedy, in age and in demeanour, that the US has ever seen. And now he’s the President. All I can say is, thank goodness for us all that Sarah Palin won’t be anywhere near the White House except perhaps as a dinner guest. …
Lovely Parting Gift
My bosses at 680 News bestowed some terrific things on me as I exited on Friday. A massive bouquet of flowers and a generous gift certificate for Fredas were among them. But I’m having the most fun with the new internet radio. …
How Does It Feel?
Everyone wants to know how it feels to be free of the early morning shackles! I left 680 News only on Friday so this is just my first weekday without the brutal 3 am wakeup. So, would somebody please inform my body clock? …
Brilliant Quote
My boss, er, former boss, 680 News Director Scott Metcalfe, shared this at my going away fete on Friday. It was perfect. It comes from the writer known best as Dr. Seuss. …
A World Away
Back in the mid-80’s I lived here in London, Ontario and even then the city felt like home. …
A Little Serving of Crab
So, yesterday I handed in all of the gizmos involved with being a home phone/cable television/high speed internet residential customer and some wizard decided not to look into my file and see that I had these services elsewhere now – and they terminated my email. Nice! …
The Virtues of Staying Put
Today, I understand the person who never leaves their hometown and has no interest in going off for adventures in new locales. They don’t move to the big city for a job or take a contract offer from another province. They prefer to stay where they are, in the known. …
Musing About Moving
What I won’t miss about Toronto. …
Time Passages
It can happen innocently enough, as it did with a bunch of us in the 680 Newsroom. …