Yes one year ago to this day, I started eat. live. travel. write as a project for my online blogging class with writers.com. 355 posts, well over 6000 comments, about 300 subscribers, over 1000 followers on Twitter, one “Best New Blog” nomination at the Foodbuzz First Annual Food Blogger Festival, not one but two paid [...]
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So hungry….
Our assignment for blogging class this week included inserting a video file into a post. I found this video when I was cleaning up my iPhoto library and thought it went well with this recent post… This was the very first video I shot with my very first digital camera in 2005 (yes, I was [...]
Last days to (maybe) win with Aga….
(photo courtesy of the Aga website) Click here to enter the Aga contest! You could win a trip for two to England, attend an Aga cooking class at Eckington Manor, tour the Cotswals region and tour the 300 year-old Aga factory! All you have to do is register for and attend an Aga demonstration at [...]
The art of procrastination
I got this down to a fine art when completing my MA over the past 2 years. My friend Joy and I called it “regrouping” and it often involved shuffling papers from one place to another, phoning each other for long periods of time (she lives in England, the phone companies loved us for those [...]
The Amazing Race Toronto in 350 words
9.30am on a Saturday morning. It’s cool out with the promise of sun later. Neil and I wander around Union Station… We lurk around the station, scoping out the passersby, trying to identify other potential racers. 10.30am. Instructions are being given… Public transport or feet are the only means of transport allowed. No jaywalking (we [...]
The Amazing Race Toronto in 100 words
9.30am Union Station, Toronto. The group arrives. 10.30am Race instructions given. Random guy passes by with a dog and three iguanas. 10.50ish We’re off. Running, like we said we wouldn’t. Checkpoints 1 and 2 completed with ease. Checkpoint 3 – challenging to find, easy to complete. Checkpoint 5. Frustration. Finding Checkpoint 6, fatigue sets in. [...]
