Another winter holiday season is upon us, so light up another candle on the cake for me. We joke that the women in our family are fertile once annually, in March, as we celebrate birthdays all December long. My sisters (twins on the 10th), my mom’s (the 19th), mine (the 19th – yes on the…
Category: Living
A Day to Remember
Today marks the 21st anniversary of the Montreal Massacre where 25-year old Marc Lepine, a self-proclaimed “feminist fighter”, unleashed a semi-automatic rifle upon the female engineering students at École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. Overall, he killed fourteen women and injured ten other women and four men in just under twenty minutes before turning the gun…
Christmas: It’s a Wrap!
So Christmas is officially less than 1 month away. I smugly bought my first Christmas gift more than a month ago, but sadly the Presents Purchased count sits still at 1 today. Besides all the gifts to buy, there are stockings to stuff, festive dinners to organize/plan/prepare, a tree/wreath/mantel to trim, holiday greetings to send,…
Korean Girl, firmly transplanted
Judging from the blip in viewers coinciding with my last post, I have concluded that people might like to read a little more from this Korean Girl, transplanted. – I was a Korean Princess for Halloween more times than you can shake a stick at. My parents inadvertently “tricked” the first trick-or-treaters that came knocking…
Korean Girl, interrupted
I’m confused. I’m a Korean girl who grew up in a white-bread farming community not far from Vancouver, BC. My childhood was pretty idyllic, running around on our farm, riding our neighbour’s horses, playing tag with my 4 sisters. Growing up as “the” visible minority in a blonde farming community, I wasn’t proud of being…
I ♥ Vancouver
Being a born and raised Vancouverite, I’d like to share my top 10 favourite things about my fair city: 1) The coffee – you really can get really good coffee on every corner in the city – Delaney’s, Artigiano’s, Bean Around the World, Mink – yum! I don’t even drink coffee, but I love all…
The most wonderful time of the year
I’m on a cleanse. Again. I like a clean shop, and that includes my liver, colon, kidneys and adipose tissue. So twice a year (in Spring and in Fall, and occasionally in the 2 weeks leading up to a major event) I do the 12 day Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox. (It’s just occurred to me…
Sunshine and Awesome
Do you know Little Miss Sunshine? I do, and quite frankly, I love her. Some of my friends are Eeyores, moaning and groaning about this or that, or this and that. I too, tend to exist on that end of the spectrum. But after a little time with my friend Little Miss Sunshine, I can…
Paging Carrie Bradshaw
Coinciding with the debut of Sex and the City on HBO in 1998, my world changed. I had just gotten married, moved from Toronto to Calgary (where I knew no one, except for my husband) to park my MBA and consulting career on my fabulous new taupe-colored Montauk couches. I had outgrown my Friends –…
The best part of the trip
So it’s over, or nearly so. After months of planning, 6 fun-filled days of eating, shopping, and drinking are over. I’m at the airport with bags under my eyes bigger than the bags I checked. I’m so tired I didn’t even notice that I’d plugged my earphones into the jack that looks like its marked…
Love Lucie 