My candidate for the NDP Coronation Park nomination, Jaime Garcia is having a steak supper fundraiser this Saturday night. If you're in Regina, why not come out and support a future leader of the province?
It's not where I got the name for this recurring feature but did you know there's an advocacy campaign to promote music education that's actually called Music Monday? Here's a catchy little a capella number from Serena Ryder that's the theme song for the cause which will be sung by school children across Canada on […]
Easily the best session at the PLA Virtual Conference I hosted at RPL last week was the one on “Marketing as Conversation: How to Interact with Your Community Through Your Web Site”. In fact, throughout the presentation, I just kept nodding my head and grinning like a goofball, thinking to myself, “Yep, uh-huh, that's right!” […]
We went to the Western Development Museum in Moose Jaw today (I didn't post it on my Facebook in case someone saw my status update and broke into our home as many will be led to believe is inevitable if they saw the fear-mongering report on the CKCK evening news yesterday – terrible! ) We […]
A company that makes an alternate to traditional female hygiene products, the Moon cup, has a brilliant marketing gimmick on their web site where they encourage readers to submit their pet names for their, ahem, lady bits. One of the many jokes in the list of entries (I would give anything to hear George Carlin […]
Can't make it to PLA? Well at least you can check out the session handouts.
I've been writing stories since I was a kid.I specialized in creative writing while doing my BA – English.I worked for five years in Saskatchewan's publishing industry.I worked for three and a half years in Alberta's writing industry.I organized and participated in writing retreats, writing groups and workshops.I served on the board of the Saskatchewan […]
Stolen from my Facebook status update last night: “Congrats on joining the rest of the developed world, USA! Now you just need to get rid of the death penalty and implement the metric system!”The American Dream is a big deal south of the 49th but I think they've got a good start on the Canadian […]
As I mentioned recently on this blog, there is currently a nomination race happening to determine the NDP candidate in the provincial riding of Regina – Coronation Park, a riding which happens to be my home constituency. There are four announced candidates: Jaime Garcia – a labour activist who grew up in Coronation Park, […]
I think the secret is to avoid watching YouTube videos of other two year olds who are reciting Shakespeare and playing piano…
