Vancouver: Day One (A Post From my New Blog)

In November, my fifteen-year-old daughter and I took off for ten days. We’d been planning on moving to Vancouver, next summer, in order for me to set up a brick-and-mortar shop, for the kids to be able to enjoy better arts programs in school, to avoid having to endure any more Quebec winters and to take some time to travel up and down the West Coast, and we thought it was high time we check it out before making any solid plans.  It was Ava’s first time on a plane and she had had many misgivings prior to take off but, once we reached our maximum altitude and our fellow passengers began to unbuckle and move about about, she settled in...

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In Which I Merge my Blogs (Or: The First One From the Other One)

A while ago, I abandoned this blog and took a break, before starting up a different one that better reflected where I'm at now. A lot has changed. I have a new career, I'm more than half done my first novel, I'm designing again and I'm about to launch two new businesses. My priority is EXIT 29. That designer consignment shop I launched and wrote about here? It has become an international fashion agency and it's what I spend most of my waking hours working on and thinking about. The new blog, which is on wordpress, is off to an okay start, but I've come to realize that the journey I took to get to where I am matters and a lot of it is documented...

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