• The King of Rock ’n’ Roll Stopped In Coquitlam

    The King of Rock ’n’ Roll Stopped In Coquitlam

    When do you really get some quality time with your colleagues outside of work? I might be one of the rare people that can happily say “pretty much every week”, whether it’s a post New Year cheers with a colleague’s extended family on a Friday night or my spouse and I…

  • Join the Choir (or not!)

    Join the Choir (or not!)

    Yule Duel, British Columbia’s largest outdoor caroling competition has returned to Gastown!  I heard about it for the first time last year after friends of mine talked about “singing Christmas Carols for a cause”. A previous commitment prevented me from going but I wasn’t about to miss it again this…

  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

    Can you hear it? The sleigh bells and classic holiday tunes in the distance….. I know … technically, this magical time of the year is all about children but for me it goes beyond that. As an event planner, the holiday season is all about organizing and attending the best…

  • Celebrating the unsung heroes

    Celebrating the unsung heroes

    One could think, considering the date, that this blog post is about with the brave men and women who have served in the wars and who don’t make the headlines. In truth as I write I am thinking about the recent event, the Women’s Collaborative Hub (WCH) where ‘unsung heroes’ was an appropriate…

  • A tour worth taking

    A tour worth taking

    Friday Sept 29 was the discovery of Metro Vancouver’s summer Asian food destination, the Richmond Night Market. Hundreds of different street-style gourmet eats, which included everything from classic dim sum to Asian-style tacos, bubble tea, K–yangneom to deep fried cheesecake, and much more. Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver, has a very large Asian population…