If you’re using Instagram to share photos with your friends and family, this tip won’t mean anything to you. If you’re using Instagram to build your brand, then you are certainly using hashtags to build your audience. There are a lot of ways to add your hashtags, like having a note on your phone that … Read more
Every year in September I start taking advantage of Shutterfly card deals. That’s why I’m already splattering Christmassy stuff on my site before Halloween, but now is the time to get your holiday card ordered. I never used to start thinking about Christmas cards until I started receiving them in the mail and realized it was … Read more
Offspring and I were invited to attend the first official Vancouver Kids Fashion Week for their Spring Summer 2017 Fashion Shows. It was a two day fashion event dedicated to children’s fashion and a fundraiser for BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. We were only able to make it on Saturday because of a prior commitment to attend a birthday party … Read more
I’ve made no secret about the fact that I’ve been married 3 times. I’m great at sealing the deal, and have always figured I’m lousy at the execution of the contract. Lately though, Ive worried that I’ve been Wookin’ Pa Nub in all the wrong places. In the interest of getting a fresh start, I even assembled … Read more
I’ve heard over and over that you can never go home. In my experience you can come home after long term travel, or at least I can, and I did. I left Canada in my early 20’s and have visited 34 countries, and lived long term in several of those. I finally returned home at age 45, … Read more
That time we performed a rescue at sea of a multi-million dollar yacht that was foundering off the coast of Cuba and didn’t claim salvage… X2 and I did a couple of extended trips to the boatyard in Florida with the M/Y Aries. Near the end of our first big refit we met a gang … Read more
When I quit my job on the yacht in Roatan after 11 years, the only plan I had was to conceive a child. I had no idea what I was going to do to make a living. A few months later I found myself in Milan after my friend Ollie invited me to join her on … Read more
I collect quotes all the time to use on my clients’ social media. Sometime I come across quotes that really speak to me and I feel compelled to share them and save them. Here is a collection of 100 of my favorites that are just the right length to share on twitter. “An entrepreneur is someone … Read more