T’was the night before Christmas, and in my bright kitchen, I sat at my table, a scribblin’ and skitchin’. I wrapped up the skitchin’ (or rather, sketching) around midnight, and eight hours later, my kids (aged 9 and 13) discovered this under the tree: So begins my new annual tradition of tracking their year […]
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An Alpha-ntastic Birthday Card
Remember the frisson of creative anticipation you felt, as a kid, when you constructed an indispensable something-or-other for your parents out of shoe boxes, milk carton caps and pipe cleaners? It turns out that you can re-experience the thrill as an adult, by making birthday cards for the children in your life. This year, I […]
I Will Survive (Just About…)
These days, I blink back tears when people try to make me laugh. I am too edgy to eat proper meals, and crave supersized sundaes with extra hot fudge. For breakfast. I tune out during business strategy meetings and scribble wish lists into the margins of my legal pads — “Good sense of humour. Cooks […]