Author Archive for Nancy Duffy
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Ending Global Gridlock and Booking a Parking Spot from your Car?
According to Bill Ford, great grandson of Henry Ford, the “average driver in Beijing has a 5 hour commute.” And “last summer, there was a 100 mile traffic jam that took 11 days to clear in China.” That’s a worldwide problem. It’s anticipated that by 2050, with an increase in population to 9 billion people, [...]
Foster’s Inn, Stratford: Good Company, Great Music… We’re All Friends Here.
People sometimes think that being an entrepreneur is an enviable position. But at times, it can be a lonely existence. Between interviews and events, I work mostly in solitude. I’m on the road a lot – pulling over to rest my eyes on longer trips, so as to avoid falling asleep at the wheel. Typically, [...]
When We Need To Get Back Up
If you’ve ever lost something – multiple things, you know what it’s like to question “Why?” Sometimes when we lose something we’ve cherished so much, it feels like we’ve lost a piece of our life. And indeed we probably have. That’s why we need time. Time to heal. To grow. But time can also erase [...]
On the Eve of Finding Juno
The Canadian’s version of the Music Awards – the Junos, have always inspired me in the past – when I actually had time to catch it on TV. But it was never a ‘must have’ on my list of things to do until I watched Lara Fabian perform Love by Grace in 2001 (yikes – [...]
Is That Really How You Talk?
I was reading Esquire this morning – a magazine aimed mostly at men. And true, I am not a man. That doesn’t mean we’re not sometimes interested in the same things. What I noticed most – wasn’t the content I was reading or the great photography (and it is really good), but it was the [...]
Let it Rain… for Today.
We get so busy in our everyday lives, we forget how to enjoy the simple things. Like the rain. It’s nearly 1PM and it hasn’t stopped since this morning. But as I work alongside my favourite cup of coffee, the sound of the drops on the window pane give me a certain sense of calm. [...]
