Archive for March, 2008
House Proud “Choosing A Spring Colour Scheme” (Toronto Sun)
If it’s possible to fall in love with colours, well, I’m smitten. The combination of chocolate brown and sky blue has worked its way into my world and climbed to the top of my favourites list.
This relationship started casually enough. I developed a case of spring fever and began a quest for the perfect, trend-forward [...]
Read More..>>Welcome!
This is the new home of my blogs, photos and whatever else I choose to add to this little corner of the world wide web. It will also be the Internet home of my new company, Lisa Brandt Creative Services. More on that tba. So please poke around, it’s a little spare right now because [...]
Read More..>>The Six Word Autobiography
The Toronto Star ran a fascinating feature piece last weekend on the concept of a best-selling book. Its essence: peoples’ life stories in six words, either in a sentence or a list.
Try to boil your existence down to just six words. It’s not that hard. And it can change, too. It’s not necessarily an epitaph [...]
Monitoring Medical Mistakes
Did you happen to see 60 Minutes last night? Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly shared the story of their newborn twins and how they nearly died because of a medical mistake. “It’s bigger than AIDS. It’s bigger than breast cancer”, said Quaid of medical errors that kill thousands of North Americans every year. [...]
Read More..>>Slow Burn
I’ve just finished listening to a book-on-tape that’s about 4 years old, but worth mentioning. Burning Down My Master’s House by Jayson Blair came out in 2004 but I deliberately chose to bypass it as a new release because I didn’t want to contribute to the income of the man who was giving media such [...]
Read More..>>Spitzer This One Out
I’m sorry, but if I were married to New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, I don’t know if I could have stood beside him while he gave a lame apology to the Big Apple yesterday. Spitzer, who built a campaign on cleaning up corruptions, violated everything sacred in his life by hiring a call girl, on [...]
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