Profile of Laura Byrne Paquet

Biography

A writer with a national following, Laura Byrne Paquet shares her ability in OTTAWA AT HOME to shed light and humour on lifestyle issues that everyone can relate to. Often basing her column on the theme of the magazine, Laura has a knack for grounding each issue and letting us see ourselves in a more exposed and vulnerable state.

All articles of Laura Byrne Paquet

• Right in your own backyard
  Later, it occurred to me that there is a place where I have lots of time to check out a huge range of galleries, museums, restaurants, concerts ...
• All skepticism aside, I do believe in magic
  It's not that I don't agree there are things in the universe we don't understand; if that were the case, scientists would pretty much be out of a ...
• Trading turkey for Thai?
  Like many families, mine used to juggle multiple Christmas Day get-togethers. We wanted to ensure we could spend lots of time with both sides of ...
• Artistic mixed perceptions
  The first two choices were catastrophic for my average. (To this day, the word "vector" makes me break out in a cold sweat.) And the last one, ...
• The music in me
  Take Ella and Louis, the album of jazz standards that Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong recorded with the Oscar Peterson Quartet in 1956. I ...
• Fashionably free
  But a little later, I found myself wondering what it would be like to be the only people in caftans in a building full of suits—or the ...
• Learning to love winter
  Whenever anyone says this, I nod indulgently, but my brain refuses to process the information. "Love" and "winter" seem like diametrically ...
• A Charity Cliché
  But since the theme of this issue is “charity” – which comes from the Latin word caritas, meaning love or kindness – I gave this old cliché ...
• On Second Thought
  Eventually, one of the two class jocks in charge of picking would puff out an exaggerated sigh and mutter, “All right, I’ll take her, I ...
• Use It Or Lose It
  Some gorgeous perfume, a beautiful necklace or a cashmere sweater, perhaps. If you’re like me, you may be saving them for a special occasion. ...
• Buying time
  It’s an interesting assumption. I thought I was writing a history book that just happened to be about shopping; just about everyone else saw it ...
• When less is more
  After being bombarded for two months by ads urging you to buy more, more, more, do you find yourself craving less? It’s an almost ...
• Fashion flashback
  Most of that urge, I’m sure, was hardwired into me by the annual back-to-school pilgrimages of my childhood. Every August without fail, my mother ...