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100 Happy Days

GC and I were walking to the bus stop the other morning and he asked if I wanted to do the 100-Day Happiness Challenge with him.

“Absolutely,” I said. “What is it?”

So here’s what it is. You can start anytime. You register. Every day you take a picture of something that makes you happy that […]

I borrowed a blind octogenarian

The Human Library took place yesterday at the War Museum and five branches of the Ottawa Public Library. There were sixty “human books” which people could borrow for one-on-one 20-minute conversations.

They included:

CBC radio personalities
OC Transpo bus driver
Muslim woman
Sex worker
Peking Opera performer
Children’s Aid worker
Person with bi-polar disorder
Paramedic
Stripper
Neurosurgeon
Judge
Police Officer
Farmer
Refugee from Haiti
Urban Inuk
Defense lawyer
Transgender woman
War artist

I borrowed […]