The whole macrobiotic thing
Last October, while finishing up a month-long trip to Europe with Damir, we both agreed that we needed some sort of change in what/how we eat. He had picked up a copy of Gillian McKeiths’ You Are What You Eat when we passed through Dublin, and we had both been reading it. Very accessible reading, [...]
Cirque du Soleil
Last night I attended the new (Cirque du Soleil) show, Corteo. As with every other Cirque show that I’ve seen, it was magical — a visual and aural phantasmagoria of acrobatics, comedic and dramatic acting, costumes and music. There’s a slight plot thread twisting through it, really more of a theme than a plot, but [...]
To market we will go
In France and Italy in June, my friend Pat and I stayed in apartments rather than renting hotel rooms, in order to have more space, get into the local culture, and (for me, anyway) to be able to cook. Three weeks without cooking and I would have been going a bit twitchy, so we were [...]
100 Prints, and I took home none
I went to Open Studio‘s “100 Prints” event earlier this year, an event that I have been attending for about 10 years. It’s a fund-raiser for Open Studio wherein 100 artists each donate an original work of art (made with printmaking techniques such as lithography, silk-screening, giclée), and 100 people each buy a ticket for [...]
Salmon on the barbie
I love to barbeque, and since I live in an apartment without a terrace, I have to make do with commandeering the barbeque duties at friends’ houses or on picnics. Monday I was sailing on a friend’s boat, and she asked me to bring the main course for a picnic afterwards; knowing that are were barbeques available [...]
Biker chick
As I rapidly approach that magic mid-40′s mark, I think more and more about two things: when is my mid-life crisis going to end, and what am I going to do to keep in shape? I figure that I can’t do much about the mid-life crisis except to let it run its course, but I [...]
How to screw a supplier, slowly
I’ve been negotiating a contract with a customer for the last two months. That’s a bit of a problem because even though a piece of the work was due last week, I didn’t receive a signed contract until the day before the original due date, mostly due to delays by their legal department. Now, their [...]
Caribana – Bringing the Islands to Toronto
One of the things that I love about living in Toronto is the multiculturalism. Walk the streets, and you’ll see people of all colour, hear at least 150 different spoken languages (that’s how many the local 9-1-1 emergency service offers), and, best of all, experience restaurants from every country in the world. We’re blessed with [...]
