If the mere thought of Valentine’s Day makes you throw up a little in the back of your mouth, then 2010 is your year. Chinese New Year happens to fall on February 14th.Read more.Image courtesy of the CCCC. … [Read more...]
New Job – Sorta
I started writing for a new online publication called Examiner.com. I am the Calgary Special Events and Festival Examiner. I get paid based on number of page views and by the amount of traffic I generate to the site, so I am trying to get the word out!Check out my first article here please!CTV Olympic Celebration comes to Calgary*Image courtesy of Heidi Drewett … [Read more...]
Seeing Quadruple
Also available on The New WestIn 1965, the Supreme Court declared the right to use birth control a constitutional right. Personally, I'm still celebrating. Nearly forty-five years later, 28 percent of women ages 40 to 44 had three or more children, 4 percent had five or more and just 0.5 percent had seven or more. You could never tell that the number is so small from all the hype out there surrounding ‘multiples' these days.I'm going to let you in on a little story. I was in Belize this summer … [Read more...]
Airline Attitude Adjustment
Also available on the Calgary Herald QThis Holiday Season, Air Canada received a record-number of complaints: 200 for the month of December alone. Usually, the Consumers Association of Canada only receives two or three. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that there was also a record-number of flights. Or, oh I don’t know: record snowfalls completely beyond the airline’s control.I completely agree that the company has got to get its act together and work toward improved customer … [Read more...]
Spruce Meadows
Written for Opulence Magazine, October/November 2008 issue“It’s not often that people have enough money to make their dreams come true.”Jane Beveridge and I are tooling around the Spruce Meadows Grounds in a golf cart. A volunteer for the past 19 years, Beveridge is graciously sparing me the 360-Acre walk around the Grounds. I know next to nothing about Spruce Meadows and even less about horses, so I am glad not to be on foot; even gladder for my knowledgeable and chatty host.Beveridge is … [Read more...]
Best of Q
It is year-end and the Calgary Herald Q blog editors have asked all of the contributors to submit their two favourite posts from 2008 to highlight the best work.This was definitely a hard choice, what with all the elections, provincial, federal and American, flying penises and flying shoes, hypothetical Canadian sex scandals, Coalition governments and the $21,000 bathroom in Tompkins park...how's a gal to choose? 1. "Lessons from Russia" Maclean Kay's post about chess legend Garry Kasparov being … [Read more...]
What happened to our etiquette?
Also available on the QI firmly believe that there are times when it is appropriate to send an email and times when it isn’t. Of course, rules for close friends differ from acquaintances, but for big announcements and major life changes, generally, I think a call is in order. Weddings, births, job changes and…well, deaths. Good news or bad, I don’t always want to read about it on Facebook. Recently, an acquaintance of mine experienced a death in his family. Announced on facebook, it was … [Read more...]
