It's the little touches that matter(ed)
Today I received a nice customer service letter from Scotiabank: Nice, right? Checking to see if I’d like to get a lower rate, or if I’m thinking about moving. That’s […]
Today I received a nice customer service letter from Scotiabank: Nice, right? Checking to see if I’d like to get a lower rate, or if I’m thinking about moving. That’s […]
Have you heard of Drummer? As in, the band made up of five drummers from Ohio? Most famous of which is the Black Keys‘ drummer? No? Well, you should. Legally, […]
As I have so many times before I made my Dad a CD yesterday. Or, rather, I compiled a playlist; I neglected to get a CD writer in my lastest […]
Right now my brother Tim and his wife are on a plane, flying halfway around the world to begin a new adventure. As he announced on his blog last month […]
Since the demise of The Rheostatics, the door has been open for the title of most quintessentially Canadian band. I was tempted to say The Constantines but they don’t have […]
A meme on James Gardner’s blog (which is a great source if you’re interested in reading about innovation) caught my attention last week: a list of the five people who’ve […]
On his blog today, Dilbert creator Scott Adams wonders why people get so bent out of shape about the likes of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh. During the peak ratings […]
It’s been three weeks since I blogged about anything but the France trip. Ahem. Sorry about that. Not that I could have managed much original thought in the past week […]
DAY 11 So much for sleeping in. The alarm went off at 6:45, and a room-service breakfast later we were picking up RER train tickets at Musee D’Orsay. About half […]
DAY 9 We left Manoir de Montflambert right after breakfast, taking a bottle of their champagne with us. We saw a fox not long after leaving the manoir, before we […]