I am rather disgustingly pleased with myself ( Read more... )

I have had the great good fortune to have spent the past couple of days in Fredericton, New Brunswick at teh Canadian Council on Social Devleopment’s biennial conference. The Council’s been around since the 1920s, and serves as a gathering place for academics, front-line activists in social and community development, workers in government social ( Read more... )

After 15 years as Communications and Consultations Manager, I have left CEF Consultants Ltd ( Read more... )

Omigod, the Sarah McLachlan concert was beyond fabulous. Just ... marvellous. And 5 encores, including a sing-along of Ice Cream, punching the line "it's a long way back to where you started from ( Read more... )

My Kate (11, just finishing grade 5) did the Youth Run of the Bluenose Marathon last Saturday, on a cold gray drizzling day. The kids ran the full marathon distance in weekly increments beginning in March, finishing with the last few km on race day in a route around the base of Citadel Hill ( Read more... )

Scored 4 tickets to the Rolling Stones in Moncton on Saturday, Sept. 3.

Haven't seen them live for, must be, 20 years.

Go me :-)

Tickets for the Rolling Stones outdoor concert at Magnetic Hill, Moncton, NB on Sat, 09/03/05 go on sale tomorrow (Friday) at 11 am via phone, ticketmaster.ca, the Halifax Metro Centre, and Magnetic Hill.

I am going to get tickets. Somehow, somewhere, I am getting tickets :-)

STORE WARS: http://www.storewars.org/

Obi-Wan Cannoli, indeed.

Worksafe, unless you can't take a couple of minutes to goof off :-)

I spent the long weekend over on Prince Edward Island, went over all by myself with The Dawg -- Kate was one of the 2,200 kids in the Youth Run of the Blue Nose Marathon, and she and Hal had planned a father-daughter weekend. At the last minute, Colin opted to stay behind because of the lamentable weather forecast and a friend's invite. So off I ( Read more... )

Lord only knows what it would have said if I'd chosen the skydiving option ...

You Are a Dare Devil


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