Kathleen Rake at Click Media Works

Wow!

What fabulous service we just received from the fella at the BC Ferries ticket booth. Looking forward now to a nap while we sail from Departure Bay to Horseshoe Bay for Easter with our kids.

#HappyEaster and thank you!
🪺🐣💖🐰🌷

#BCFerries #OnePacificOcean
@bcferries.bsky.social

#WordsMatter
.
.
.
.
.
Thanks for sharing this graphic, Poetry of Monsters!

MY HEART IS FULL
Such a great, love-packed, laugh-filled visit from my boys.
#MissYouAlready!
See you in May, Andrea Carter!

#OnePacificOcean #BookendBoys #Sons #SonsAndMothers #FirstBorn #LastBorn #WestCoast #CentralCanada #Québec #Gatineau #Aylmer #MissionBC #NanaimoBC #Philosophers #Philosophy

Seventeen weeks old today: Evie.

#MiniaturePoodle #PartiPoodle #PrincessPoodle

Shark teeth still.

Evie yesterday. 14+ weeks.

4/4
Around 2004, prior to my diagnosis, I became involved with the #CrystalGala Committee (now Foundation), based in #AbbotsfordBC. Learn more: www.crystalgala.ca/the-gala/

More of my story will follow in subsequent posts.

They are easier to read at Facebook.
#WordsMatter

3/4
Every year I had a diagnostic mammogram and in May 2017 was again declared ALL CLEAR!

That changed in July 2017.

2/4
After the lumpectomy, I went on a radiation schedule followed by the meds tamoxifen, then letrozole—five years-ish, all told.

PART ONE OF MY STORY
1/4

My first encounter with the alien invader was May 24, 2008. During my Saturday-morning shower.

A lump.

4/4
These personal posts are for anyone to read and/or share but are NOT meant to draw advice or sympathy. If, however, they can help you or someone you know get through things--whatever those things are--then HOORAY!

The posts tire me, so they will remain short.

Cheers, all!

K.
💖✨️💖✨️💖

3/4
For this same reason, my family and I have decided to refer to my newly assigned position as a #PalliativeCare patient to a #ComfortCare patient since "palliation" really means comfort. This word choice gives me/us more control.
💫

2/4
Yes, I live with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, but I choose instead to call it an #AlienInvader. In my mind, it receives less power from me, and I have more control.
💫

If you know me, you know how much #WordsMatter to me. Our #WordChoices affect how others understand our meanings.
1/4

Counting on #CBC and #GlobeAndMail to overachieve. I just cancelled my #NYTimes and #WaPo subscriptions until after the next U.S. election, if, indeed, there is one.

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

In my #ProWriter experience, #Copywriting is a broad term that includes #BusinessWriting + #TechnicalWriting: www.facebook.com/share/p/15ev...
⁣
#Questions? I'm happy to answer them. #NoStrings.⁣

Spot a #typo? Let me know.
.⁣
.⁣
.⁣
#WordsMatter⁣
#SmallBusiness⁣
#WriteLikeAPro
#ProWritingTips⁣

#ProWriterTip:
Write to express, not impress.
.
.
.
#WordsMatter
#BusinessWriting
#Copywriting
#WriteToExpressNotImpress
#SmallBusiness
#WriteLikeAPro
#YouCanWriteLikeAPro
#HowToWrite
#EmilyCarrSaidItBest
#EnglishIsHard
#BreakingNews

I would forgive AI most of its failings if I could hit a button and it would know which windows and tabs to keep open and which to close.

#LuminousPaths in @cityofnanaimo.bsky.social is a free, month-long celebration of light, art, land, and community. Join us!

January 22 - February 17

Learn more: ow.ly/cxSQ50UCOLY
.
.
.
#MaffeoSuttonPark
#NanaimoBC
#TourismNanaimo
#CityOfNanaimo
#150AndBeyond
#Community
#OnePacificOcean

While I typically advocate for #PlainLanguage, I do LOVE this word + will use it someday! In the meantime, I'll write dog lover.
.
.
.
#WordsMatter
#Copywriter
#BusinessWriter
#ProWriter
#DogLover
#PlainLanguageAdvocate
#MakeItEasyForYourReader
#DogLover
#Cynophilist

Why? Why can't I get through a social post without using an exclamation point?

Oh, wait. I did it!

No I didn't.

Great to follow you here, @wordsarehard-pjh.bsky.social!
We no longer live in the #FraserValley, but we do like to know what's going on after living/working there so long. We now love living and working in #Nanaimo.

#WordsMatter
🥂✨️🥂✨️🥂

www.facebook.com/share/p/1E2k...

From a past #ProWriterTips newsletter.
Sometimes, customers can't/won't pay you what you propose. That's okay, sort of, because there's always a path for everyone to take and end up a #Winner. . . Here are 2 #WordUse ideas to help. conta.cc/3vwXD0l%E2%8...

#Copywriting #BusinessWriting #WordsMatter

Friends, if you take in a stray animal, PLEASE have it scanned for a chip. This is the third time in a week that someone has come into the shelter with an animal that was 'theirs' that was actually chipped and registered to someone else who had been desperately missing that animal for YEARS.

This and @snarkysteff.bsky.social's chicken soup with dumplings are two of my favourite things.

Champagne, Clark bow out of Liberal leadership race OTTAWA — Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne and former B.C. premier Christy Clark both bowed out of the running for the federal Liberal leadership on Tuesday.

OTTAWA — Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne and former B.C. premier Christy Clark both bowed out of the running for the federal Liberal leadership on Tuesday.

Joy is the vital spark that keeps our inner child alive and growing. It brings wonder and excitement, turning ordinary moments into opportunities for growth and happiness.
gurdeeppandher.substack.com

A real picture of the blue sky from our home in Nanaimo, BC.

Thank you, everyone, for all your "likes" and "follows" here at bsky. This is a real-life picture of my very own blue sky, snapped on a different day. Go ahead and use it if it makes you #FeelHappy.

The chemo is messing up my brain: Evie turns 11 weeks today, Monday, January 13. Oi.