Summer bucket list 2023: Take me out to the ball game

The last time I went to a baseball game in Ottawa was in the summer of 2019. I was invited to a media/influencer event for the Ottawa Champions and it was a hoot. As a bonus I won a very pretty pair of diamond studs that I still love and wear on the regular. (You can read that post right … Continue reading →

What is the point of complaining?

I don't know why I'm so riled up about this. Yesterday was the final day of the garden centre at the Carlingwood Loblaws. Not that I knew that... I had just pulled up and was reviewing my grocery list when I noticed a dearth of plants and green stuff in their usual caged-off spot in the store's … Continue reading →

Summer bucket list 2023: There’s no place like HOM

Last summer Mark and I had fun around town guided by an “Ottawa summer bucket list” of our own design and I’m keen to do it again. I have learned that I need to make lists of ideas and places to go as they come up, otherwise they get forgotten and we revert to things we enjoy but aren’t … Continue reading →

Supporting women’s mental health with the Run for Women

How's work? I am asked this question quite often when I'm out and about and run into people I haven't seen in awhile. I started a position as a writer on the corporate communications team at The Royal four years ago and my answer to anyone who asks is always the same: GREAT. Ha. I know. … Continue reading →

Bikes and Ottawa bike shops

They say that if you want to get more movement into your day to start with something you enjoyed doing as a kid. Well, for me, this is riding my bike. So I started biking to work last week. It takes approximately nine minutes and I'm pretty winded by the end. NINE MINUTES. My plan is to to do … Continue reading →

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Summer bucket list 2023: Take me out to the ball game

What is the point of complaining?

Summer bucket list 2023: There’s no place like HOM

Supporting women’s mental health with the Run for Women

Bikes and Ottawa bike shops