Disclosure: This is a partnered post with Tangerine Bank. As always, my words and opinions are my own. The start of the new year is for many the time for resolutions. Now, I've never been big on resolutions, but there is something about the New Year that can't help but give you a feeling of a fresh start. Hope is lingering in the air. It feels like everywhere you look where … [Read more...]
Welcome to a New Year of Opportunity…
"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and it's first chapter is New Year's Day."~ 20th Century Poet Edith Lovejoy Pierce … [Read more...]
Happy New Year! Bonne Année!
This is a vintage postcard is from 1910. A little different then the images we use to wish happy new years now a days, non? But the sentiment is still the same. Here's to a fantastic 2016! Cheers! … [Read more...]
9PM is the New Midnight! (Well, if you’re still in gradeschool, that is…)
My parents had what was probably the least exciting New Year's Eve ritual of all time. They would stay up until midnight sitting in their usual spots in the living room, watching TV and reading the paper, as they did pretty much every night from 1980-ish to 2010-ish. Come midnight my mom would make a fresh cup of tea. By 12:30, at the lastest, they would be in bed. Some years, … [Read more...]
My year in Review… Connecting With Others
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2012! I was going to do the typical round-up of one favourite post per month from my site, and then had the brilliant flash to instead share with you my year in review via my interactions with others... because for me 2011 was definitely all about connecting with peeps online. In January I fell in love with a recipe from Kat's Confessions. My … [Read more...]