These tales take cake this holiday
01.01.70
Down from New York to deliver them. Had she flown, the cupcakes likely would’ve been confiscated in keeping with the Transportation Security Administration’s new war on icing.
I’m referring, of course, to the pre-Christmas incident at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, where an alert TSA agent seized a passenger’s red velvet cupcake, declaring its “gel-like” frosting a security risk, which I’m pretty sure is TSA-agent-speak for “I bet that cupcake would pair nicely with the 8-ounce bottle of breast milk I confiscated earlier today.”
Don’t get me wrong. I can totally see where the presence of a delicious cupcake might interfere with a crew’s ability to focus effectively on flying an airplane.
Even the most highly trained pilot would probably struggle to concentrate knowing that a cream cheese-frosted red velvet pastry lurked in a nearby carry-on bag.
But I think the greater threat to human safety comes from snatching a cupcake out of the hands of a woman about to submit herself to three hours in coach during the holiday travel season.
Source: Fredericksburg.com (blog)
My Big Change: From publicist to pâtissière
01.01.70
The Champagne has flowed, the punch has been spilled, and now it’s time to face the coldest, cruellest month of the year, along with the equally dreaded concept known as new year’s resolutions. But what if you actually followed through on those “life-changing” promises you made to yourself? All this week, we’ll look at individuals who made total career and lifestyle changes. Today, Nathalie Atkinson on an executive who swapped marketing charts for strawberry tarts.
For some people, it’s the click of fresh new year digits that inspires a complete life assessment and change. For marketing executive Kelly Mansell, it was a milestone birthday that spurred a move 2,987 kilometres out of her comfort zone.
Last year Mansell and husband Mark McGann, a set decorator in the film industry, pulled up stakes from their downtown Toronto lifestyle and moved to St. John’s, N.L. “We both turned 50 and both said to each other, ‘OK, what are we going to do with this decade?’ ” Mansell recalls. “We actually said those words.”
Source: National Post (blog)