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I’ve been writing this blog post for a few weeks now and it has bottle-necked any other post from coming along. Know what I mean? Today I read the Transitions are Tough post by Christine Gilbert on her blog Almost Fearless. She, her husband and their 18 mo baby are traveling the world. Something I […]
I haven’t been here for a while. I’ve been doing. TEDxNovaScotia, growing Crystal Clear Bookkeeping to 3 full-time people (I’m aiming for 5 by the end of the year) and starting a new venture: Repair-Share. That hasn’t left me much time for reflecting, let alone writing. It’s funny how much I’ve started noticing people expressing […]
JULY reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: a novel by Stieg Larsson. Oddly enough I’m content that it’s over and I don’t feel like I miss it. It ended, then went on and tied up a few loose ends. Thanks Regine, I’m glad I read these. Anything You Want: 40 lessons for […]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. I was prepared to not like this novel. It’s popular, the author set out to write a best seller and it’s very dark. But I was drawn in and enjoyed it. I have ordered the next one, too. The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M […]
Doors Open, a Novel by Ian Rankin. I’m a big Ian Rankin fan. This is a little different than his other ones, and I like it. Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A journey through the 6,000 languages of earth by Glenn Dixon. Words are concepts not representations of things. Buying is a very […]
It’s hard to believe that it is May. April went by in a whirl of taxes and garden prep. (http://crystalclarion.wordpress.com/ my Good Life blog) That Summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and some others by Morley Callaghan. Makes you wonder where the new Paris is and who the new intelligentsia are. […]
It’s election time, here in Canada and the interest groups are out. As I was walking to my office, I met a group of Pro-Lifers coming the other way. Now I’m a feminist and I believe that a woman should have reproductive choice, but I believe that abortion should be the strategy of last choice […]
Your customers should be able to expect that you fulfill your promise of doing your business competently. That includes having the best products you can find, reasonable pricing, good customer service, fast, reliable, cheerful, careful, complete etc, etc. It’s only if you go a step beyond, to something that your competitors don’t do that you […]
Brands: as in who people think you are, rather than who you think they should think you are. These days of transparency it is who you are authentically that matters. There I used all the rhetoric words for brand. Despite the over-used words, the concept holds. Brands used to be what the marketing department wanted […]
Coastliners: a novel by Joanne Harris. Another of the Gretchin Rubin happy novels. This one at least has a happy ending. The Sentamentalists: a novel by Johanna Skibsrud. Published here in Kentville at Gaspereau Press and winner of the Giller Prize. I didn’t get all of it, but I still enjoyed it. How to Be […]