I bring you: personal finance talk. Via cats. We’ll deep dive into topics that matter to you (saving, investing, home purchases…). Stay tuned for future installments too.
Read MoreIf my life were one of my paintings, it would be a tiny fresco of a bowl of soup filled a sixth of the way up. Instead, I create decorative azulejo tiles for the church: Jesus performing miracles, heroic battles, and good deeds done. And while I paint, a witch burns at the stake in the name of God.
Read MoreSoho—you’ll have to pry me from here by my cold, dead hands. I will spend the rest of my days in this neighbourhood. I’ll eat artisanal cake for breakfast every day; consort with the independent fashion designers on Carnaby; wear bedazzled gear from Beyond Retro; hide from the tourists near Piccadilly; watch the locals head into the sex shops; eat hummus and gourmet burgers.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, I once worked for Google and got popular around the office for creating signs, posters, poems, limericks… Somehow, the Google Pittsburgh office caught wind of what I was doing and asked me to do one about towels. I also wrote a eulogy for the dearly departed office fish. RIP, Bubbles.
Read MoreOne of my microfiction pieces that was recently published in an anthology based out of the UK.
Read MoreIf social media is a playground, I’m happily heading to the sandbox. Sometimes I enter writing contests and sometimes I win stuff! Here’s a snippet of the most recent wins.
Read MoreI’ve written at least 2000 online dating profiles in the last four years (thanks to a fun freelance gig) and here’s one of my favourites.
Read MoreWe had a client last week who, in her words, needed “an epic cover letter!” Something outside-the-box, smart and savvy for technology companies. Given my experience as a resume writer, who happens to have worked at El Google, I said hell yeah.
Read MoreI finally understand the phrase “the hills are alive with the sound of music.” It sounds like a wind chime here, with the gong-like sounds of cow bells mixing with the light ringing coming from the sheep’s collars, and the rushing 72 waterfalls that surround the valley, and the odd Yahoo! from the paragliders.
Read MoreSnippets from a physical theatre piece that I created, performed, and produced (but I didn’t do the lighting design — I’m good, but I’m not that good).
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