Ever heard of Dragon Dens? This is where Ten Tree’s co-founders, Dave Luba and Kalen Emsley, presented their business model. For every item sold, Ten Tree and its partners plant 10 trees.
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Ever heard of Dragon Dens? This is where Ten Tree’s co-founders, Dave Luba and Kalen Emsley, presented their business model. For every item sold, Ten Tree and its partners plant 10 trees.
When I worked at Canada Post, a colleague asked me for my date of birth. “March 21, 1983” I replied out without thinking—I had just spent the morning filling out employment forms. “Wow, I can’t...
My love story with books started when I was three years old. I have never stopped reading since. I love had covers, paperbacks, magazines, essays, newspapers… hell, if I’m desperate, I have been...
I have… or rather, I had a BlackBerry. It had been a no-brainer choice to me. I have never been an Apple gal and there weren’t that many options on the market two years ago. Beside, Ottawa tends to...
The first year I worked as a French teacher in Ottawa, as soon as spring sprung, my students—all federal government employees—started to sport painted toenails. They would compare the relative merits...
Arthemia, my previous theme, was a bit outdated. So here is a brand new blog theme, based on Sahifa and customized by moi!
On Monday morning, after a night’s sleep to recover from the flight back, I drove Feng to the nearest walk-in clinic so that he could have his eye checked.
It’s the end of the year as we know it! No party for us this time. The return from France has been pretty brutal: Feng is still dealing with his battle scars, it’s very cold and we lost our Internet...
I submitted this picture to Passive Aggressive Notes—I think both the note and the…ahem, handling of food qualify as “passive aggressive”!
In recent years, the condominium industry has been booming in Canada, with dozens of new towers being erected each year.
I am the first one to admit I don’t own a copy of the very much sought-after Life for Dummies – An Instruction Manual. Yet, even if my motto is “no gods, no masters”, I have a conscience, this...
Even nature doesn’t like November. Trees are bare now, the geese all flew South for the winter a few weeks ago and the crops have been harvested.
The “Owls of the Nile” design was created by Rachel Caldwell aka ThirstyFly, a talented Philadelphia-based illustrator.
My latest coup de coeur was for It's Just My Imagination Running Away With Me, a design by Esther Aarts.
I received an email from Site5, my hosting company, claiming that my resource usage was too high to stay on a shared server plan.
A good year after the trend picked (apparently I am not an early adopter!) I decided to try one of the many “subscription box” services.
As a tee addict, I keep an eye on Day of the Shirt, looking for new original pieces to add to my collection.