Design in Words

Hate your handwriting? I can help you learn to love your letters.

Join me on Tuesday, April 8th at .ca for an Intro to Contemporary Calligraphy to transform your writing.

No need to bring anything but yourself and a beginner’s mindset. I’ll teach the tips and tricks to make your handwriting look amazing, using some special tools.

Spots are filling up, so grab yours now .ca so you don’t miss out, as this is the last class before summer.

Have you heard about the trendiest word of 2025?

It’s “misogi” and it’s a Japanese Shinto concept of difficult chalk gets in nature to clean off, or purify, the contamination caused by modern conveniences (who me love modern conveniences?!).

It has at its (today’s meaning) core an ethos of finding a very hard physical challenge that you may not be able to complete.

Or as - author of The Comfort Crisis - puts it, two tenets:

1) Make it really hard

- and my personal favourite -

2) Don’t die

Embracing this, today my dear friend of 30+ years and I signed up for a 50km trail race 180 days from now.

We are both pretty athletic but the last few years, for me at least, have not been top-of-the-pops when it comes to maintaining my fitness.

Can we do it? Not sure. Last year’s 23km almost killed me (.sisco seemed to recover faster than me!) but I guess we will see…

This also coincides with one of my other goals for 2025: do more cool s**t with people I love. This ticks that box, too.

What is in store for you for 2025?

What’s your 2025 misogi?

What do you want to do more of?

Who’s coming to fancy up the most wonderful time of the year with amazing calligraphy?

Grab your spot for Intro to Calligraphy by heading over to .ca now and make those holiday cards and tags smashingly gorgeous.

No filter. Just straight up magic. Two kinds: the sky and my amazing kid.

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us. To my friends around the world who’ve celebrated with us over the years, we love you 😘