With the arrival of franchising (in 1994) and all the organizational requirements that came with it, our family welcomed many new talents to the fold. It became obvious that we needed to clarify our mission, values and goals in order…
Dear lady, it is I who will sit at your desk this morning to write today’s letter. Let me start by saying how happy I am to see my chicks again, to hear them chirping and dancing in the nest,…
The sun has not yet risen and I am like a sleepwalker, half-awake. I hear sharp little tapping, like a steel finger, at the kitchen window. She’s back! That’s right, my friend the crow, and she’s begging for her breakfast.…
Leaders are motivated by one of the best reasons in the world: to create something that has the potential to become much bigger than themselves. I didn’t know these things when I opened our first small restaurant. How could I…
“Try to learn English and shorthand typing,” my father told me in 1959, when I insisted on enrolling in the classics course at Sainte-Foy High School. “Philosophy, my dear girl, is just shovelling clouds. You’ll do much better if you…
An ode to girls and women of all ages When I opened my eyes this morning, I knew right away that I had been dreaming about the former mayor of Mississauga, Hazel McCallion. I had the privilege of meeting her…
Here I am, well into my golden years, once again ruminating about this or that. And this morning in particular, I am trying to pinpoint where this astonishing creativity, a common thread running through my long life, comes from. Why…
This June is so beautiful that it makes me forget all the current miseries on Earth. Waking up with the sun, the first thing I do is turn on the coffee machine. As it brews and fills the kitchen with…
I’ve picked up my pen hundreds of times to recreate a better life for myself on paper. I remember as a little girl, when a heavy cloud of sadness would fill the kitchen at Caplan, I would run to my…
As kids in the Gaspésie in 1953, we ate every day thanks to the sea, which provided us with fish, and grandfather Frederic, who let us chop off the head of one his chickens from time to time or collect…
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