Bailie.com

2008

March

• Goodbye to some memorable books

• Custom songs makes for light-hearted gifts

• Fitness quest update

• Redeeming social value of Will and Grace

• Texting and driving

• Social networking reverting to a global local village model?

• International Women’s Day

• Happiness is genetic - go figure

• Can’t afford to be sidelined for a day

February

• Say No to Bullying day

• The descent of Canadian media: when shoes trump budget announcements

• The year of Me

• Schlepping naches

January

• St. Louis, Missouri

2007

October

• Trikke, a treat

August

• Foreign film weekend

• About that disability

July

• After the u-pick berry fest

June

• The Starbucks Experience, by Joseph Michelli

• Berry picking season is here again

• What on earth is going on at VanCity?

• Blowing My Cover, by Lindsay Moran

• Talking to people on the SkyTrain

• The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong

• Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man, by Charles Barkley

• Dance recitals and high school graduations

• Finding George Orwell in Burma, by Emma Larkin

• Night, by Elie Wiesel

• Will Telus ever “get it”??

• I love Bollywood movies

• Bad customer service biggest blow to office productivity, part 2

• Bad customer service biggest blow to office productivity, part 1

May

• Peter Grogono gets President’s Award for Teaching Excellence

April

• Death Defying Acts in Havana

• Penn Masala and Facebook

• San Francisco: good and bad

• Side effects of being a business owner

March

• Another grandchild in the works

• An occasion to kvell

• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller

• Celebrating Holi

• And life goes on

• So small a gesture, so large an impact

• Another day, another social worker

• Broken system yields broken children

• Padded behinds and cotton wool brains

• I’m not a gambler but when it comes to social worker

February

• The mess called Ministry of Children and Family Development of BC

• Social worker arrogance in British Columbia

• Family drama strikes

January

• Attending theatre production yields alimentary treat

2006

December

• Communicating with cats

• The un-holidays

• Christmukah, West Coast style, part 2

• Christmukah, West Coast style, part 1

• Differences in communication styles

• A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss

• The Falls, by Joyce Carol Oates

• Obsan, by Joy Kogawa

• It’s not just the break-ins you’ve got to worry about

• Doug and Bob: Look what you started

• More on avoiding Christmas [music]

• Some companies just don’t get it when it comes to marketing

• Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam

November

• Restaurant policy ruins a dining customer experience

• Repressiveness taken to a whole new level

• Avoiding Christmas, Part 2

• Avoiding Christmas

• Progressive versus crazy-making

• Margaret Dickenson as a usability professional

• The absurdity of telephone surveys

• Technorati profile

• What does it take to get a coffee in this hotel?

• Weekend in Portland

• New phase, new blog