Does it seem like you can never find the time for yourself? Do you often wonder how people live a wholehearted and happy life? These are very common thoughts among people. As a woman, I feel like it is even harder to find time for yourself because we feel that we have so many shoes to … Continue reading Making Time for Yourself
Introduction to Bryn
Bryn Carson here! Getting into blogging and I just want to share with the world empowering things, especially toward women. I want to help women learn themselves and how to become the best woman they can possibly be. We all have great potential, we just have to discover that and put it to use. So … Continue reading Introduction to Bryn
F**K BEAUTY
When you can’t write what you need to write, you write what you can. I want to write about…
That new Dove ad is absurdly symbolic. Women in five cities around the world are made to choose one of two doors in order to enter a space. The entries are labelled ‘Beautiful’ or ‘Average’. There seems to be no other way to gain access to the building. Your physical appearance is your only admission. Choose beautiful Dove says. F**K that.
My sister looked radiant tonight. I don’t know if I have ever seen her glow like this. When she made her entrance into the hall, mischief captured her and she threw her hennaed hands up in the air, her intricately brown laced hands swirling through the air as she danced. Little dried flecks sprinkled off her hands like black confetti. Later my father, handsome in his turquoise blue sherwani interrupted…
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On Ben Affleck and Slavery
A few years back, I was contacted by the producers of Who Do You Think You Are?, a popular TV genealogy show, to help them with an episode. The show was predicated on tracing the ancestry of celebrities, attempting to capitalize on the boon in genealogy amongst the masses, and was based on a popular British version. For an upcoming episode, they were working with Rosie O’Donnell, whose Irish ancestors had passed through Montreal, living for a time in a long-defunct neighbourhood in the city’s east end.
So I met with people from the show when they came to Montreal, spent the good chunk of a day with them, showing them what mid-nineteenth century architecture in the city looked like, using Pointe-Saint-Charles in the stead of this defunct neighbourhood, which was destroyed by the expansion of rue Notre-Dame in the 70s. Not surprisingly, the majority of the Montreal part was excised…
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