Written by Lizzie Macaulay My job never stops being excellent. To learn this month that I was going to be learning how to make beautiful balloon arrangements, I couldn’t help but marvel at the incredible variety I experience for this column. (Just don’t ask me to skydive or play with spiders!) I’ve been aware of…
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Written Lizzie Macaulay I’m afraid of heights. Irrationally so. I don’t even like to stand on chairs. I don’t know exactly what I think is going to go wrong, but my brain inevitably tells me something is going to happen. (It hasn’t so far, in 36 trips around the sun, for those keeping score) So…
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Written by Lizzie Macaulay When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to get a job. I was eager, but I didn’t exactly have a lot of skills beyond that. How completely refreshing it was to watch local 14 year old, Erin Watson, spring into action as she stepped into the shoes of entrepreneur in the…
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Written by Lizzie Macaulay Full disclosure. I’ve known my latest Lizzie Learns ‘victim’ for a little while now. I’ve written about her. Talked with her at length about her business and her vision for its future. But stepping behind the curtain for a first-hand experience of what she does each day was something completely different.…
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Written by Lizzie Macaulay Oh, dear reader, how jealous you are going to be of me by the time I’m done telling you about my adventures this month… There are so many experiences for this column that I’ve been looking forward to in the lead-up, but this one may just take the cake. Enter: the…
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Written by Lizzie Macaulay It was a dark and stormy morning… No, this isn’t the start of a primary school child’s writing assignment, but literally how the day was unfolding as I was preparing for this month’s adventure. Lightning was cracking overhead; rain was bucketing down and the wind was utterly howling. With good reason,…
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Written by Lizzie Macaulay I’ve been doing this column for a while now. I’ve met some of the most wonderful people and done some incredible things so far. Few assignments, if any, filled me with as much excitement and dread as this month’s. You see, I would never classify myself as brave. Ever. I’m afraid…
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Written by Lizzie Macaulay Imagine… You’re a tireless worker. You work seven days a week, never take a holiday and rarely get a change of scenery. It’s such physical, repetitive work that there’s a chance your body is breaking down and you’re literally out of fingerprints. The type of job you have means that you’re…
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Written by Lizzie Macaulay Basketball. Being more than a little vertically, and athletically, challenged, it’s not a sport I would necessarily associate myself with. So what an interesting prospect it was to be invited along to play wheelchair basketball with the Fraser Coasters this month. I was more than a little curious what it would…
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