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Celebrating thirty-five years on the Main Street
of Erin Village, Wellington County
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News for February
This is me not talking about Valentine’s Day. No, really. I’ve decided not to mention it in solidarity with your inbox, which, in the lead-up to the Event-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named, will likely fill to bursting with relentlessly schmaltzy, romantically-inclined missives from savvy … Continue reading
News for October
Oh dear. You’ve caught me at a bad time, I’m afraid. My hair’s a mess, I haven’t been to the gym in days, and I’ve been dreaming about the act of writing (and endlessly rewriting) marketing copy. OK, so maybe … Continue reading
News for August
Steph here, writing to you from the Dark Ages. Let me explain. I live in an urban pocket of southern Ontario that is the proud owner of a power grid with all of the reliability of rural Eastern Europe. So … Continue reading
News for July
Canada Day strikes me as the one day of the year when Canadians can feel absolutely justified in participating in the kind of in-your-face patriotism that we usually eschew as a matter of good breeding. Of course, growing up in … Continue reading
News for April
I realized yesterday that today is April Fool’s Day—not because I’ve been plotting nefarious deeds or anything (or at least that’s the official story), but because the Google Maps Pac-Man prank made the nightly news. A personal aside: I’m told … Continue reading
News for March
Perhaps it’s a little bit gauche of me to admit, but these days I find myself inwardly booing whenever I see a school bus. No, it’s not because I think children are sticky or because driving behind a school bus … Continue reading
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