After years of intense competition, Bermuda’s two largest office coffee companies, CoffeeWorks and Convenience Coffee, merged in late 2016. The About Page copywriting for the winning brand, Convenience Coffee, was meant to: Continue reading
Clowning Around
When my eldest son, Matt, was about three years old, my wife was working evening and night shifts as a nurse on the dementia and palliative care wards in a nursing home.
Many mornings Matt and I had hit the road — him for daycare and me to work — before she got home from an all-nighter. Continue reading
Once upon a time in Bermuda
There’s a great magazine called Bermuda Parent. It was founded in 2012 and is run by a most amazing publisher who has more energy than a castle full of knights in shining armour.
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Two Planks and a Passion
Those in the know in Nova Scotia’s Kings and Hants Counties — as locals the world over do — affectionately abbreviated the handle of the theatre company at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Two Planks and a Passion, to Two Planks.
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Queensland Beach, Nova Scotia
Queensland Beach is located on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, about a half an hour’s drive west of Halifax. It’s arguably the most popular of St. Margaret’s Bay’s ten beaches, in large part, because you have to pay to access its nearest neighbour, Hubbards Beach, Continue reading
Another Hitchhiker’s Guide
Back in the early 80s, long before he authored, The BIG Picture — Insights from the Spiritual World, Garry and I spent a number of months on the road together, travelling first to a remote almost-nothingness named Trutch Continue reading
A Timbits Epiphany
As strange as this is is going to sound, back in 1998, my wife of the day, finding me home from the office early, delirious with excitement about my soon-to-be (as in, 0900 the following morning) new career as one of the world’s greatest copywriters, Continue reading
Two Cups of Tea
Truly custom kitchens require state of the art and old world tools, and a great deal of thought, care and attention. And they involve two cups of tea!
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