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A Year in Squiggles

T’was the night before Christmas, and in my bright kitchen, I sat at my table, a scribblin’ and skitchin’. I wrapped up the skitchin’ (or rather, sketching) around midnight, and eight hours later,  my kids (aged 9 and 13) discovered this under the tree:     So begins my  new annual tradition of tracking their year […]


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An Alpha-ntastic Birthday Card

Remember the frisson of creative anticipation you felt, as a kid, when you constructed an indispensable something-or-other for your parents out of shoe boxes, milk carton caps and pipe cleaners? It turns out that you can re-experience the thrill as an adult, by making birthday cards for the children in your life. This year, I […]


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I Will Survive (Just About…)

I Will Survive (Just About…)

These days, I blink back tears when people try to make me laugh. I am too edgy to eat proper meals, and crave supersized sundaes with extra hot fudge.  For breakfast.  I tune out during business strategy meetings and scribble wish lists into the margins of my legal pads — “Good sense of humour.  Cooks […]


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