Two year old: “why daddy say ‘holy shit’?” “Oh, that’s just because the stock market is collapsing. Goldfish cracker?” A friend shared one of her go-to blogs with me, with the warning, “it’s kind of depressing.” It feels like we could be reaching the limits of a finite world. Not to mention, tropical fish are…
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100 Days of Anything Starts With One
There’s an inspiring creative project I stumbled upon, conceived by an equally inspiring artist, called the 100 Days of Making, that has planted a little seed in my “oh my, I do not have enough time to do the BIG things I really want to do…” mind. Big things (write novel, become President of the…
Which way to the beach, you lucky bastards?
There was a moment, fifteen years ago, when I knew I had chosen Pemberton and I wouldn’t unchoose it. I was walking along a quiet stretch of road, between town and the old high school, when a horseback rider came clip-clopping towards me. Before I could nod a greeting, the cowboy called out, “Is this…
How to do a Good Job as a Community Manager
I’ve worked as a community manager for a range of brands and businesses, including the World Ski and Snowboard Festival, the Whistler Writers Festival, The North Face Canada and Origin Design + Communications. This is a recent post I wrote for Origin’s e-news and blog on what it takes. Call it whatever buzzword fits your #culturecode: social media…
Your inner arm skin, if I may…
A few people reached out to me after this article ran in the Question – with encouraging notes, with expressions of condolence, with knowing “been there, I see you, I’ve felt that pain” nods, with some of their own writing. And I realised that, even though my own sense of friendship is all shaken up…
Moving past lip service on women’s issues
I came, chubby-cheeked and reluctant, to the realisation that if I was ever going to find the seat of my own power, I had to embrace the smell of my own sweat. There are a lot of stats that link girls’ mental health, resilience and confidence with physical activity. But taking that from the abstract into…
6 Things You’re Probably Doing Wrong While Skiing
This article first ran on the Liftopia blog, and was just reprinted on Business Insider. It got more comments than anything else I’d written, mostly because Evan was honest/cheeky enough to say the T-word. Tips. It keeps service industry staff alive. When I taught skiing, the most common question I’d hear from clients, no matter…
Why I Don’t Need Another Photo of my Sleeping Baby
There is a microsecond long window when a baby falls asleep that everything is right in the world. My personal victory today? Resisting taking a photo of that moment. The kid is 23 months old, so I already have approximately 700 photos of him sleeping, none of which have successfully managed to evoke the heart-swell…
Farewell to Mark Forsythe from a (too young to be this nostalgic) former Community Reporter
Remember Neruda’s line: tonight I can write the saddest lines? Hello Christmas Eve. I misted up today listening to CBC radio, ferchrissakes. (And it didn’t help, that when I parked the car and walked the streets of Pemberton doing my last minute Xmas supplies shopping, that the little church on the hill was ringing out…
Mike Douglas’ Snowman film is a love letter – to Whistler
I’ve interviewed Mike Douglas a couple of times (for Skier and IF3 publications), and more recently, I’ve worked with Mike and his amazing crew at Switchback Entertainment as a partner in crime on several Origin Design + Communications projects for Whistler Blackcomb (Embedded, The Wonder Reels, The Beyond Series). So when our Origin team went en masse on Sunday…
Lisa Richardson Bylines 