Just got booked to teach a bachelor how to cook healthy meals at home, could this be a new calling, lol? I find this so charming because I recall so many years ago when I first left home, I did not know how to cook-at-all! I knew from my father, how to balance the ingredients based on their colour ( 3 colours Cyd!! not two the same, for instance not rice AND bread or potatoes ) IE One white, one red, one green ~ He said a meal is balanced with three parts.  My cousin Jo & Auntie Kay gave...

I have a funny practice that I started last year on January 1st, 2016 that I call Trashercise. I used to be cranky about the trash in the neighbourhood around my new apartment. I used to live up the hill in Upper Westmount, before I fell from grace and sold my home. In Upper Westmount there is no trash because it's a clean fancy neighbourhood. When I moved down the hill to Lower Westmount, it is what we call the Flats or Lower Westmount. There are commercial stores, restaurants, our Super Hospital nearby, subway stations etc... fairly high density, lots...

Today is December 17th, it's the 40th Anniversary of my Skating Accident. The day my precious skating was taken away from me. I was 18. I should have won Canadians that year. I was at the very top of my game. I was both incredibly artistic as well as technically brilliant. Skating was my favourite thing in the whole world, I lived it, I breathed it, I lived for skating. Six days a week, eight hours a day. Up at 4:30 am, squeezing in my schooling around a jam-packed skating, training, dance & choreography day. I loved it. It was the...

Hello Lovelies ~ So many people ask me how I keep my skin looking so fresh and dewy... " How do you do it Cydney ?? " as if I have some deep dark secret ( yah, I'm Dorian Gray's sister, lol )  Honestly, its pretty simple... yes, I have decent genes, but it really starts with what you do with what you've got. And for me it starts with Lemon Water in the morning.  I popped over to the Market this morning and picked up some fresh lemons to make myself some fresh lemon water. I use 1/2 a...

Tonight I thought I'd make an early supper, I had made a beautiful paelle of sorghum grains, with veggies & beans, a salmon pattie that was calling my name, a few fresh fruits in the fridge, salad and a nice bottle of red wine. I poured myself a glass of red wine, and savoured my supper, and then wondering if I'd actually made great choices health wise. So often we reach for comfort food, and honestly I had had a very challenging week, very busy with the fashion side of my business, an awfully sore neck from trying to be...