by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 20, 2012 | Inspirational Women
I have been looking forward to sharing Cake-Pop Cuties with my readers for some time now – I met Sandie when she was the associate editor for South Asian Woman magazine this past summer. After our initial connection we became friends on Facebook and that’s when I...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 17, 2012 | Try-This Tuesday
Yesterday was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and to honour him and his well-known speech, I Have A Dream, I’d like to dedicate this task to this great man’s courage, faith and dreams. I have a copy of King’s speech in my studio – I bought it in...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 16, 2012 | Self Love
Yesterday, I ran a workshop called Commit to a Balanced 2012 (and Do Away with Resolutions!!). A wonderful, warm group of fabulous ladies joined me for the afternoon; we cried, laughed and worked our way through an enormous amount of material. The workshop...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 13, 2012 | Journalling
The word of the week was “bummer”. My 4 year old daughter learned it from her best friend at school and taught it to her little brother who also found it hilarious. The two of them would shout the word at each other and then dissolve into fits of...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 10, 2012 | Journalling, Try-This Tuesday
Every morning in grade 6, we would file into the classroom, sit at our desks like the perfect angels we were, pull out our journal books and write to a prompt written in that beautiful cursive that only elementary school teachers seem to have mastered. That and...
by Taslim Jaffer | Jan 3, 2012 | Try-This Tuesday
I know this title sounds a little bit a la Jiminy Cricket but that’s just how it came to me and it’s sticking! Last week, a reader asked me how I come up with these Tuesday Tasks. Well, I don’t really come up with them so much as they come up to...
