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 ...

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 ...