“I’m going to Mexico next year!” “Oh, nice!” “Yeah, we’ll be hitting up the Azul Fives for a wedding!” “Nice! It gives you a year to take care of…” (looks me up and down) “…that.” — an uncomfortable conversation between a colleague and I Ever since becoming a […]
Brought to you by Jamieson and TheCo As soon as your kids are old enough to interact with the world outside your home, it doesn’t take long for them to start bringing germs home with them. Up here in the North, we know what’s coming once the school year […]
Hey everyone, I hope you’re having a stellar weekend! It’s a busy one over here, but when are they not, right? So hey—I try to avoid asking y’all for things because my personal mission is to entertain and engage with as many different kinds of content as possible, but I […]
Any content creator lamenting for the “good ol’ days” is one who’s just not ready for change. The digital landscape isn’t one that’s ever still. We’ve come a long way from blogging’s humble beginnings, where we had these stand-alone sites that held all the content. I’m sure the bloggers back […]
The hardest part of creating great content is figuring out where all the pieces go. The job of a great storyteller is creating a compelling narrative from beginning to end. No fluff to lose your audience’s attention. No ambiguity so they miss the point. A great storyteller uses […]
Back when I got ready for school after the summer break, it was flash cards and workbooks to get me back in the swing of things. I’m about to sound like my Dad, but—these kids don’t know how good they have it! While I didn’t need to walk miles […]
You know you’re getting older when you start having appliance envy. As a kid, all you want are toys. Household management? A foreign concept. The multiple bits and pieces to do well at adulting? You completely take it for granted. Childhood’s a simpler time with simpler desires, and it only […]
I told myself that once I made my way through my never-ending pile of paper, I’d get myself a Nintendo Switch with the latest Mario and Zelda games to reward myself for all the hard work. Which is great, because getting months ahead in my content by getting all of this […]
I was driving the five minutes home from dropping off a friend as I saw several police cars zoom by westbound in front of me—we’re just one street away from the Danforth. I was woefully unaware of what was happening only five minutes away. Unaware, that is until the […]
So I don’t know about you, but my kids always want to do what I’m doing. They want to drink from my cup, even when it’s the same juice in their cup. They want to dress like I do, going as far as borrowing my security pass from work to pretend they’re […]