Medium.com Review – Jim Mowat
A Rainbow Like You ~ Book Review Published: February 28, 2021 Writing a novel in a rock music setting is a place of high stakes for an author. The real-life counterparts are hard to compete with in terms of extraordinary highs and lows. The narrative arc is well known to all readers with a ...
Vancouver Sun article – A Rainbow Like You
Rock star finds new tune with help from unlikely source in novel by Vancouver author Veteran TV commercial producer Andréa Fehsenfeld’s second novel A Rainbow Like You shines light on a troubled musician and a wise teen. Author of the article: Dana Gee Publishing date: Dec 16, 2020 • December 16, 2020 Vancouver’s Andréa Fehsenfeld has produced TV commercials ...
Cool Things. Volume #9. Memoirs
Memoir: Memory Transformed. As a fiction writer, creating make believe worlds and characters is my bread and butter. It’s exhilarating and the best part of my job but also a hell of a lot of work. Memoirs are no less challenging from a physical writing standpoint – any story need to be constructed properly – ...
Cool Things. Volume #8. The Queen of Clean
Living with Less – How the Queen of Clean does it. Can’t find your favourite sweater? Cupboards bursting with mismatched Tupperware? Is a moth eaten t-shirt from 2005 still lurking in your drawer? If you’ve answered yes to any of the above, then let me introduce you to Japanese tidying and organization guru Marie Kondo. ...
Cool Things. Volume #7. Afros.
THE AFRO: A STATEMENT OF SELF Chris Rock’s controversial 2009 documentary Good Hair was inspired by a single question from his three year old daughter – How come I don’t have good hair? Rock’s quest to provide an answer is the basis for the insightful and hilarious film, a behind the scenes expose of what drives ...
Cool Things. Volume #5
STAYING CALM FOR THE WIN In her wildest dreams, Naomi Osaka could not have predicted this. In her first Glam Slam Final she was not only playing her idol, Serena Williams, she was taking her to town: out serving, out hitting and psych-ing out the heavy favourite. On the line for Osaka: Japan’s first ever ...
Cool Things. Volume #4
BURNING MAN My dear friend Robin Esrock has made a career writing about Bucket List adventures. Although he wasn’t the first person to tell me I needed to go to Burning Man, Robin is very excitable when he talks about things he loves. Whether its travel, hot sauce or experiences, his enthusiasm is infectious and ...
Cool Things. Volume #3
MEETING MY DOPPELGANGER (S) Is it just me, or is if fun to say doppelganger? 🙂 Doppelganger is one of those words that can be said over and over and it just gets weirder and better. (God bless the Germans.) The word refers to someone who either looks like you or acts like you or ...
Cool Things. Volume #2
NEW MEXICO – THE GREAT UNKNOWN My love affair with New Mexico started years ago and it’s hard not to be captivated by this mysterious State. Lurking beneath it’s dusty, red surface is an undercurrent of other worldliness that defies description. This mystique defines its allure, yet it remains the enigma of the American South West. ...
Goodbye 2017
I love me a new year. Fresh starts, a clean slate…I mean, what’s not to love? Each New Year brings hope, ambition and ideas to the forefront, but nothing is ever guaranteed except change. 2017 was no different. Before saying hello to 2018, its time to reflect on the year that was. My 2017 list ...
The Fall of Gawker
The Fall of Gawker. How money trumped psuedo-journalism. It was serendipity. This weekend I read Ryan Holiday’s book, “Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator”, which detailed how blogs like Gawker, Buzzfeed and The Huffington Post drive, and manipulate, the current media agenda. After a particularly brazen segment, I pulled out my phone ...
Canadian TV
Canadian TV A scam wrapped in hypocrisy, served on a bed of conglomerates. On March 1, 2016, CRTC Chairman Jean Pierre Blais heralded: “Today marks the beginning of a new era of choice for Canadian television viewers.” While this type of platitude-speak is not surprising coming from a government agency, the sheer ludicrousness ...
Canada 150 has nothing on this.
Canada 150 has nothing on this. Oddly enough, humans and the Forex currency markets have something in common. Both gravitate towards round numbers, especially those ending in zero. 30th 40th and 50th birthdays are considered landmark years to celebrate, just as a currency pair will float towards 1.30 or 1.40 if it can. Nor surprising, ...
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
The Crisis of a Politically Correct World In Jonathan Swift’s landmark satirical essay “A Modest Proposal” he offered a tongue in cheek opinion on the solution to Ireland’s impoverished: the selling and eating of their children. In one of the most quoted passages he persuades in a very black way: “A healthy child well ...