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Throwback Thursday – Picking up Styx

June 21, 2018 / Leave a Comment / Celebrities, Throwback Thursday

I know I’ve thrown back to this before. I can’t help it. It was such a spontaneous and wonderful moment. Five years ago, it looked like I wasn’t going to be able to meet one of my rock heroes, Tommy Shaw. Free-FM was presenting the band as part of a great line-up at Rock the Park, but no meet-and-greet was planned. The band had things to do. We got to meet and get photos with Toto and Grand Funk but Styx couldn’t make it happen. …

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If Dad Only Knew

June 18, 2018 / Leave a Comment / Celebrities, Personal Life

My hope for Dads yesterday was that they felt how much they’re loved and appreciated. …

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Making A Real Difference

June 13, 2018 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Photography, Politics, Social Marketing, Working

If this post makes you a little uncomfortable, that’s part of the reason I’m writing it. It’s evidence of a problem that needs fixing for girls of the present and future. …

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Help is on Its Way

June 11, 2018 / 2 Comments / Celebrities, General

The suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain rattled me. I don’t own a Kate Spade bag and I’ve never watched Bourdain’s show, although I did purchase Kitchen Confidential after years of hearing about how brave and bold it is. But I didn’t have to be a fan to understand the importance of these special artists to so many people. …

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Rosanne-Coloured Glasses

May 30, 2018 / Leave a Comment / Celebrities

There’s nothing wrong with thinking the best of people. That is, until they prove you wrong. All along, I had a feeling I’d live to regret praising the reboot of Roseanne’s now-cancelled sitcom. …

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Thankful Thursday – Young Women Role Models

May 24, 2018 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Social Marketing, Thankful Thursday

For every Kim Kardashian,who focuses on body image and striving for perfection, there’s a Pink, telling girls to be who they naturally are and how that’s plenty good enough. …

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Hey Ricky

May 1, 2018 / Leave a Comment / Animals, Celebrities, Photography, Politics, Social Marketing

One of life’s little delights is discovering that the artist whose work you admire is also a great human being. So often it happens the other way. I’m looking at you, Louis ck. …

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Filling the Hole in the Soul

April 24, 2018 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Politics, Social Marketing

What in the world happened in Toronto yesterday? Ten people are dead after a man ran a van along a sidewalk I walked a million times as a Torontonian. We can dismiss people as evil but that’s too easy. The hard stuff is trying to understand why they did what they’ve done. …

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Book Review: Collusion

April 17, 2018 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, Reviews, Social Marketing

Don’t mistake this book for being like all of the others about the Trump administration. Collusion was written by a journalist with rock-solid credentials including more than a decade embedded in Russia. Luke Harding has sources who go on the record and are legitimized in several other ways. He shares specifics about the US President’s deep financial ties to Moscow, Putin and Deutsche Bank – a bank with a history of fraud and deception. …

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Ed Kelly standing in front of a microphone, wearing mirrored sunglasses, talking on the phone as he does one of his impressions

Master Impressionist

April 16, 2018 / 2 Comments / Celebrities, Personal Life, Politics, Working

Thousands of broadcasters and actors in this country dream of making it in the US. Our friend Ed Kelly has been doing it for decades. The way I see it, his career is successful for three reasons.

He’s versatile; from broadcasting to voice-over to acting to live stage performances including comedy, impressions and singing – he does it all.
He’s mobile. He can go where the work is.
He’s wickedly talented. Like, a one in ten-million kind of talent. And that might be selling him short.

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Thankful Thursday – A Life of Bounty

April 12, 2018 / 1 Comment / Celebrities, General, Social Marketing, Thankful Thursday

One of the great privileges of my career has been to meet so many people and hear their stories. It’s fun to meet the rich and famous, sure, but it’s the ordinary folks fighting various battles who have made the most impact on me. As Amanda Marshall sings, “Everybody’s got a story that could break your heart”. …

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