The sun is shinning, a cool breeze is coming off the bay and hours after the final instalment of my latest series hit the stands no one has threatened to sue me. It's a good day.

Oh sun how I hate you. You lured me with your warm ways on Saturday. You made me so excited I traveled to St. Martins to bask in your glory. I explored caves, took pictures with my boy and ate delicious ice cream, but all the while you were making me sick ( Read more... )

I picked up photos the other day. Pictures that were taken in the spring. Pictures of Pete and I doing nothing. I looked sooo happy. I was beaming. Then I realized I still look like that. I realized I am happy, happy with my job, with my apartment, with my city, with my family, with my boy, with my life. There are minor aggrivations of course, ( Read more... )

I've been asked to mould the minds of young journalists. Yup. Next month I am to speak at the St. Thomas University school of journalism on how I got where I am today. Apparently I'm an example to follow ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning and I was smiling. I didn't care I was headed back to work because I had had such a wonderful vacation. Not only did I have oodles of fun in Digby with Calie, but I purchased a four poster mahogony bed at auction which is gloriously huge and soft and welcoming. I love it. I had a surprise day of spoiling by Pete, and then ( Read more... )

Love is saying I missed you after two weeks apart and hearing back "I've taken tomorrow off to be with you" when all you expected was I missed you too ( Read more... )

“I’m sorry sweetie, I’m really late” I said from my cell phone while standing in the newsroom at 7 p.m. on Friday. I was supposed to be in Fredericton by then. Instead a late announcement (underhandedly slipped onto the newswire at 4 p.m. hoping no one would notice) had me scrambling to write a huge story and kept me stuck at the office. Other ( Read more... )

I have a story. It's about a tooth. Now in its youth it enjoyed candy and drinking far too much coke so later on in life it had to pay the price. There was the cavity that had to be filled. But, after enduring the evil overlord dentist's torture the little tooth was whole again. Becasuse of the filling it felt like it would never have to endure the ( Read more... )

Ok the paper has green lighted for my friend Mary (who is the lifestyles reporter) to purchase about a half dozen lifestyly magazines. Neither she nor I understand the world of women's magazines. What ones should she look for ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning I will be interviewed on CBC TV, and Newsworld, as an "expert" about the beaverbrook art gallery dispute. YIPPEE. Actually am quite apprehensive about being aired nationally. Its a live interview, once more its an early morning 7:45 am interview. Am fearing a bridget jones-esque moment and becoming national laughing stock ( Read more... )