Women in the kitchen, renovating
Finding a home renovator in Toronto is difficult, but finding one owned and operated by women that also mentors women in construction trades borders on impossible. Enter Wo-Built, whose CEO Martina Ernst I met at the first Toronto Girl Geek Dinner last month; she and her partner have decades of experience in design, project management, building [...]
Sale at Vintages
Since I’ll soon be stepping down from my board role at the Australian Wine Society of Toronto (a wine-tasting club) and therefore contributions to the website and blog there, I’ll be moving my wine blogging over here. Starting this past Saturday, July 28th, Vintages is having a sale on 450 different products, some of them [...]
Lightening and sunrise
I took this video early Thursday morning, somewhere over the American midwest (I assume, based on the time) on an overnight flight from San Francisco to Toronto. The lightening show had been much better about 15 minutes before, but I didn’t think to get out my camera.
Your dictionary is your friend (especially for the illiterate)
I just had an interesting exchange over on my business blog. I wrote a post that someone from a vendor disagreed with (it was a bit controversial in areas), and he called my statements “vacuous” in a public comment on the post. I emailed privately to him and said that I found “vacuous” to be [...]
Dim sum on the way out
My last day in San Francisco before I moved down to the airport Hyatt for my next conference, and since I was staying right on the edge of Chinatown, I decided to treat myself to a little dim sum. City View, located on Commercial right around the corner from the Hilton, was highly recommended on a [...]
Perbacco
My friend who had recommended Jeanty at Jack’s also recommended Perbacco, just a few blocks away from the hotel, and I walked over for a late dinner after my long day on the bridge. It’s a lovely narrow place, with exposed brick on the wall behind the long bar, and booths opposite the bar along the [...]
Walking the Golden Gate bridge
Yesterday was another perfect day in San Francisco: clear and sunny with bright blue skies and a breeze to keep the temperature reasonable. I decided to take the ferry to Sausalito and, conditions permitting, walk back to the city over the Golden Gate bridge. First stop, the ferry terminal Saturday market, a wide array of [...]
Nose to the wind
I shot this video clip today just as I started walking over the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco. Note the sailboat in the beginning part of the clip, unable to make any headway against the wind and current under the bridge in spite of being in full sail:
Finishing my foodie day
Still Friday night here in San Francisco, and I just came back from a small dinner at Jeanty at Jack’s, just a few blocks from my hotel and recommended by the friend who I had met earlier for drinks. I didn’t feel like a full meal, so I skipped the steak frites (actually, entrecôte), the [...]
Foodie fun in San Francisco
I live in a city with amazing food (Toronto), but there’s something about San Francisco that just makes me want to eat all day long. I drove up here from Silicon Valley late yesterday afternoon and am staying at the Hilton Financial District, which is nestled between Chinatown and North Beach (the Italian area), just [...]
