So my little baby niece, Ella, (you know… the fairly new one) Yah… Well…. She’s been out and about in the world for a few months now and absolutely rockin’ it.  In fact, the other day I saw her and her (equally as fab) mama told me that she: “grew a tooth today”.  Grew a […]

Lapse!  I’m sorry.  Life, as you know, can unexpectedly become filled with insane fun… And though I don’t want to give into the temptation of excuses, it is, after all, summer.  SUMMER.  The season for frolicking.  And gallivanting.  Some work stuff, too… Still, I’ve been getting mail like crazy and apologize for being so off […]

The last two weeks, I have been in the air (or in airports) for about as much time as my feet have graced nice, solid earth.  Thus, I have happily expanded my repertoire of magazine fare.  I don’t do novels in the air (or in airports) because I am either on another planet (gratitude of the excellent […]

Having never rented a car before, I found myself in Calgary this weekend doing just that.  I had to fly in for a funeral… drive myself to a remote cemetary some 2 hours away, and drive back to catch a flight.  Thus, when the exceptionally kind car rental man told me that it would be […]

Just like a good lipstick collection (obviously needed for a superior life experience), I think it’s important to find a good people collection.  There are some kinds of people we need in our lives…

The Listener… what can I say?  Good ears are hard to find and we all need them!  (Beware of those really good […]

To get the excruciating back-story, go here.  If you’d like to save yourself from shaking your head till it hurts, you should probably just go to some other blog.
Dear Telus Communications:
(Please pause as I grin.  After you hear my story you will be able to see the irony I find in your name.  Classic paradox.)
We moved […]

We’ve heard a lot about the Law of Attraction lately - thanks to “The Secret”.   I like the book.  In fact, I’d venture to say that the giant pair of rose colored glasses I own are representative of the ideas in there.  Anyhow, we were walking home from school the other day and my little […]

If a person has a martini, whilst they are sipping their perfect “shaken, not stirred” elixir, it would almost be unethical or immoral (or some kind of bad thing) to take time away from the simple enjoyment and instead be contemplating how they can burn the extra caloric intake.
A martini (with no olive) is approximately […]

So.  I’ve been harassing the Starbucks staff for years to find a solution to the coffee spilling out of the top of the cup.  It ends up all over the car.  Some coffee chains (of which I am not as fond…. ) have good sticky stickers that won’t come off - not even over speed […]

Some days, when even the largest purchase of MAC wouldn’t help, it just has to be enough to:

know there are more Kick Ass coffee beans in the cupboard & your rose-colored glasses aren’t too far from reach
trust that even though your BFF is lots of kilometers away, there’s only a phone call between you & she’d jump on a […]