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Business, Fun 10 May 2013

Moms Like Crosswords, and the NYT is ON IT.

Picture of someone playing the NYT Crosswords app on an iPad

Dear New York Times Crosswords marketing team, As an avid NYT Crossword aficionado, you can probably imagine the delight with which I opened your email with the subject line, “Announcing the Mother’s Day Collection.” The thought sequence sparked by that subject line alone went something like this: OMG, imagine if on Mother’s Day, my partner [...]

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Beauty Tuesdays, Curiosity, Fun 8 Jan 2013

Beauty Tuesday: On William Blake, Desire Mapping, and Pinterest

William Blake's painting of Los Entering the Grave: a man entering an arched doorway carrying a lantern

I’m starting a new tradition. Every Tuesday I intend to celebrate beauty in some form. Beauty Tuesdays! I’m diggin’ it. Hope you do too. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Danielle Laporte’s wonderful Desire Map program. I’ve settled on five core desired feelings for myself: Freedom. Alignment. Conviviality. Evolution. Delight. (Yes, they spell “faced.” I don’t know what [...]

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Curiosity, Fun 27 Sep 2012

Master Your To-Do List, With the Flip of a Coin

Coin Toss, by Daniel Dale

Of late, I’ve been letting my mind run free and imagining a wealth of possible directions for my professional life: starting a new venture; going to work for someone else; consulting; writing; some combination of all of the above… and while there are many options I am happy to strike off the list more or [...]

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Community, Fun, Technology 25 Jun 2012

Virtual Vancouver

Virtual Vancouver

A few weeks ago, I was invited to present a super-speedy Pecha Kucha talk at Vision Vancouver’s Annual General Meeting. Pecha Kucha talks move fast: you get 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide – and that’s it. It’s a fun, adrenaline-filled format (and a blessing for the audience as you don’t have to wait [...]

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Business, Fun, Sex, Technology 6 Sep 2011

Can Eros Wake Book Publishers From Their Technophobia?

Can Eros Wake Book Publishers From Their Technophobia?

I was talking to a girlfriend of mine about e-books and she referred me to this Fast Company article about Harlequin’s (you know, the romance novel publisher) e-book imprint. It’s fascinating. Go ahead and read it, or if you’re like me, stick it on Instapaper for reading later. There are a bunch of things that [...]

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Curiosity, Fun, Technology 2 Sep 2011

Quicksilver

Quicksilver

I work in an office of techies, but I grew up in a neighbourhood full of hippies, crystal shops and tarot card readers. My sensibility lies somewhere in the middle. I don’t think anyone would accuse me of being a flower child – my musical tastes, eating habits, style of dress and worldview don’t mesh [...]

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