Happy Friday, Ursula LeGuin was recently awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards. Part of her speech really struck home:...
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Hi Everyone, So you may have already seen this, but it’s worth a second look. If only my day job was to roll around and go on...
Happy Friday! I am glad to say that the first part of Sales Conference is done and now it is on to part two! I’ll see you...
Happy Friday! We have had a beautiful, cold, clear week here in Vancouver, more like January than November. It will be a pleasant surprise for our reps...
Happy Friday. Today I have to share a wonderful book with you; A Sudden Light by Garth Stein. I was eagerly awaiting this book and had pre-ordered...
I feel like everyone in Canada spends at least a few minutes a week thinking about bears. If they’re not rummaging in garbage, they are busy hibernating...
The big day is finally here and I am looking forward to the little trick or treaters to come knocking on my door this evening. We get...
So after a week where everyone at the office got a cold, I tried to get back on the bike (literally) since it’s Bike-to-Work-Week here in Vancouver....
Happy Friday! First, here’s something to make you smile: Second, I just found out that an author liked my review of his book on Goodreads! That’s a...
Hi guys! Once I worked at a Polish bakery and one of my coworkers picked up a small white bun and said, “This is potato bread, made...
Happy Friday! Today’s fashion lesson, add a scarf! A few years ago I was in a high-end charity consignment store in San Francisco. The woman volunteering that...
It certainly looks that way! Click to view. -Mark
Happy Friday, Have you ever had a secret hankering to be a spy? Do you read spy thrillers to escape the everyday humdrum? Well, do yourself a...
Christmas came early on Thursday, Oct. 2nd when I received my copy of DIRIGIBLE DREAMS by C. Michael Hiam from ForeEdge / UBC Press. I have actually...
Happy Friday! Today is a wonderful day as my sample of The Dirty Apron Cookbook just landed and I can hardly wait to go home and get...
Happy Friday! Yesterday was the first full day of autumn and here in Vancouver it came in with rain and wind. No doubt at all that summer...
I divide my reading week like this: nonfiction books that require concentration on weekends, and fiction on weekdays. When I am particularly busy, I read spy thrillers....
I am not your typical reader of graphic novels but I have enjoyed quite a few of them now and have just started and am really liking...
Hello and happy Friday. We have survived the Winter catalogue mailing and the weekend looms. See if you can guess what my plans are: What are you...
Happy Friday! Even though I don’t want summer to be over, that crispness in the air has arrived, along with the low mists over the blueberry fields...