There are two things I need to do more this year, one is writing and the other one is being more like Seth Godin. I listen to my share of podcast interviews and nothing sends me scribbling things I need to remember like an interview with Seth Godin. This week on his blog, Seth celebrated […]
Book review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
(In which I review “The God of Small Things” and tell you what you should read instead.) (A short reading note: I read up to chapter 7, then — thoroughly confused — re-read chapters 1 and 2. It renewed my interest in the characters and clarified some plot lines I had lost.) The God of […]
Dance Fitness Workout Playlist
Do you remember the days when we would make mixed-tapes from the radio, recording our favorite songs as they came-up and sharing them with each other? Well, I think that the playlist is as good a love language as the mixed-tape ever was. In fact, the cool kids like Hamilton still call it mixtapes — […]
School, on the first day
All your back-to-school pictures are awesome and one day my children will hate me for not having a single one of them. School started on the first day and the a/c broke in the middle of a heat wave so we went to the beach. A heroic HVAC repairman shot the trouble for about an […]
Dard Disco Zindagi! A Bollywood starter-kit for Netflix Canada subscribers
The title of this post means “Pain, Disco, Life” and was inspired by a Hindi movie title (Love Break-ups Zindagi) and an item number from Om Shanti Om (Dard-E-Disco). Because you can’t do Bollywood without doing inside jokes. A few months ago I fell into a Hindi cinema hole so large I’m picking-up a new […]
Podcast Episode 15 – Making room for your interests and passions in the middle of chaos
In this episode of the Véro Show, I reflect on finding room for our interets and passions in the middle of motherhood and tackle the question of vocation and whether motherhood should be enough to sustain us. Just a regular Wednesday… I mention a few cool things in this podcast. First I quote Phil Collins. […]
The Yelling Challenge
(Before we get started, note that I use “yelling” as a catchall for the many ways in which our voice expresses anger, exasperation or plain old done-with-it-ness. I was reminded of that by my 9 year-old daughter this morning who accused me of “yelling at her” during church when I asked her to take her […]
Podcast Episode 14 – We moved! Hear the whole story on the Véro Show
So we moved! Wanna know why? Listen to the podcast. I also ramble about two seasons disappearing (Fall and Spring), working in politics, city noises and probably more. 07: 45 minute-mark: Why I need big things to motivate me to do the small things. Here’s the quote from The Scarlet Pimpernel that I reference (and […]
Shake your Bolly Part 2: Unavoidables, classics and tour-de-force
You can find the entire playlist on YouTube, right here. This is the second instalment of my Bollywood playlist (read part 1 here). The first post focused on modern dance numbers from recent movies. This post is about the classics of modern Bollywood item numbers. According to one French-Canadian white woman. You get what you […]
Shake your Bolly: my Masala playlist
You can go straight to Youtube and watch the whole playlist here. I recently discovered Bollywood and my goodness, did it rock my world. The extent to which the Indian film industry is ignored by critiques and distributors in North America is nothing short of scandalous. But when I tried to drum-up some interest for […]