Tag: family
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I’ve been putting a lot of thought into the company, and her challenges, and I’ve come to a few realizations. I promise, it’s not all bleak! Tito and I have had this conversation before. That we’re behind. That we need to tweak things. Enough that we know it’s not just a matter of working harder,…
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The best thing to come out of the pandemic was curbside pickup. S’true. This is the only civilized way to visit places like, say, an Ikea. Ikea is perhaps the 6th ring of hell, with its confuzzling labyrinth, angry, seemingly unattended children and dictatorial shopping experience. But I digress. When it comes to Costco, generally,…
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Hamilton General Hospital has lousy parking. So every time mom and I go, we have to vie for space in the public lots across the street. There’s this guy, just shy of five feet maybe, rotund, grumpy, elderly, and he sits in a little booth adjacent to the payment machine. Now I COULD just go…
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So my uncle loans me this car. A fully electric, bright blue and white, Kia Soul. I have exactly zero cars at the moment… so a free car sounds kind of amazing, and also my uncle is being super sweet. And I’m a hippie. Electric? Green? Be still my liberal heart. I should add, I…
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Some friends of mine requested a family set of pendants, made from purple tulips. There are 2 mothers, and 3 children. To celebrate the thought of family I chose to make all 5 pendants from the same flower by carefully preserving the flower to lay all of its petals flat. Once my tulips were ready…
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Every Mother’s and Father’s Day I have the honour of celebrating 2 sets of parents – my actual parents and my parents best friends, who predate my existence by quite a bit. They are a fixture of every family event, where after a few drinks they’ll tell the same stories time and time again. Great…
The Blue Brick 