Vintage Mondays: Old Hollywood Reads
On this, the day after the Golden Globes and in a time where modern Hollywood is gearing up to engage in all the full on chi-chi-poo-poo glitz and glamour of awards season, it’s sometimes easy to...
View Article7 Valentine’s Day Goodies For Your Favourite Bibliophile
Take note, lovers of the bookish-type! If you’re looking for a gift that caters to your Valentine’s passion for the printed word, there are unique goodies-a-plenty to choose from. When book-love is...
View ArticleVintage Mondays: We Are Family
“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ~Mother Teresa Happy Family Day! Here, in Canada, it’s a holiday! Everything is closed up so we can spend some special time...
View ArticlePics of the Week 38: Sweet Friendship, Language of Poets (Sainer), Castle in...
Notice anything different? The Daily Shot has moved to a Weekly Shot. This change will make it easier to keep up with my eye-candy widgets and smile-makers while whittling down my very favourites even...
View ArticleIf Life’s A Bowl Of Cherries…
Do you remember that classic Erma Bombeck book? Its full and marvelous title is, If Life’s A Bowl of Cherries – What Am I Doing in the Pits? It’s a great book, and I fondly remember reading it, at the...
View ArticleVintage Mondays: Reading Posters, Part 1
Two of my favourite things in the world! Vintage Mondays and books! What could be better? Probably nothing…except a hearty helping of some of the coolest vintage reading posters I could find. Here they...
View ArticleOde to Jeanné (tribute with video)
Last week, a most inspiring woman, my friend Jeanné Carroll, gained her angel wings. Cancer swept her away from her dear husband, Tim and son, David, and from all the rest of us who have learned to...
View ArticleBook Nooks #4: Flying High, Livraria Ler Devagar Bookstore
What better way to lift one’s spirits, than to indulge in a little bookery? And where better than the positively charming Livraria Ler Devagar in Lisboa, Portugal, where imagination, books, and...
View ArticleVintage Mondays: Spring’s Sprung!
It has been one loooong freakin’ winter! And while there may still be a small, pathetic snowbank at our curb, I am ready (so ready!) to fully embrace spring and get to enjoying some sunshine, greenery...
View ArticleFollowing Your Bliss: One Man, One Piano and The Road (Video)
There’s something to be said for following your bliss. Long before Joseph Campbell’s now infamous phrase became synonymous with seeking out what turns your crank, folks still knew, deep in their guts,...
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