Bon's Mots
Musings of a bon vivant
Categories: Dating, FAIL, Learning | Add a Comment

I re­ceived this email from an on­line dat­ing site.
Dear Antandre, Please view my pro­file and see if you will like us to be com­pan­ions. Regards — xxx
Intrigued by the fact he used proper gram­mar and spelling and didn’t fall into the usual bad first-message habits, I did view his pro­file.
Profile Name: AprilOx
I am Mature, Resourceful, and Has Initiative.
ABOUT ME: […]

Categories: Learning, Music | Add a Comment

In ho­n­our of day­light sav­ings time end­ing to­day, I of­fer you a soul­ful gem from Tyrone Davis.

Tyrone Davis — Turn Back The Hands Uploaded by DwightFrye. — See the lat­est fea­tured mu­sic videos.

A friend re­cently sent me an ar­ti­cle called “Why I’m Alone”. It is a re­sponse by Huffington Post colum­nist Lea Lane to the ques­tion she is of­ten asked in the years fol­low­ing the death of her hus­band: Why is she still alone? Why doesn’t she date much?
While I’ve never loved and lost like Ms. Lane, I can […]

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I had the plea­sure of at­tend­ing Podcamp Toronto this past week­end. Over 600 peo­ple con­verged at the Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson to lis­ten to their peers talk about new me­dia, so­cial net­work­ing sites, blog­ging and pod­cast­ing (natch). The two-day “un­con­fer­ence” was free, thanks to its many spon­sors, and of­fered a venue to for so­cial media […]

We in­ter­rupt reg­u­lar blog­ging for a spe­cial an­nounce­ment…
I was ap­proached by my BFF Daniela Saioni (and I don’t use that term loosely — we’ve been best friends for over 30 years!) to vol­un­teer my pub­lic re­la­tions skills (such as they are) to a fundraiser she is or­ga­niz­ing called StandUp For Your Sisters. I am proud to be as­so­ci­ated with this project because […]

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