Category Archives: Life in General

Magazine Spreads

For one of my courses, PR 1140 – Computer Skills, we’re learning how to use Adobe InDesign. One of the assignments was to do a 10 page magazine spread. Since one of the requirements was to use high resolution (read: 300+dpi) pictures and I was feeling a little lazy, I used widescreen desktop wallpapers. Want [...]

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Kings of Convenience in Hamburg

Roley & I went to see Kings of Convenience in Hamburg back on October 10th and we were both lucky enough to be at the very front, right by the stage! We were situated right in front of a speaker, so the flip camera I won from Chef Patrick allowed me to take REALLY AWESOME [...]

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What I Learned From My 30 Day Challenge

In August, I signed up for a 30 day yoga challenge at a local yoga studio, Yyoga. They have quite a few locations downtown, in Burnaby and in Richmond, and they also offer a very wide selection of different yoga classes. Let me just say that I had NO idea what I was in for. [...]

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Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man – A Response

Gini Deitrich, of Arment Deitrich PR based in Chicago wrote a blog post entitled Is It True Behind Every Successful Woman Is a Man? today. As I was reading it, I was reminded of a book entitled I Can’t Believe She Did That!: Why Women Betray Other Women at Work by Nan Mooney. This book [...]

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Old Posts and Memories

There’s a trend right now of bloggers going through old posts on Twitter and re-posting them on their blogs. Hummingbird604 has posted a bunch and so has Michael Kwan. This prompted me to look through some of my old posts and I found a couple gems worth sharing. I wrote this piece about five years [...]

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