To end off our celebration of Independent Retailer Month this July, we've interviewed another wonderful person and business here in Niagara: Terri-Lynn Woodhouse of One Earth!  I came across One...

Saturday, July 19th is International Self-Compassion Day! This is a new celebratory day: it was created in 2024 by the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. We're big believers in self-compassion here...

July is Independent Retailer Month, a great time to celebrate and support our favourite independent shops! We thought we'd highlight one of ours on Front Street here in Thorold: Steadman...

Happy Canada Day! If you've taken yesterday off for an extended long weekend, we hope you've been enjoying it.  It's been hot lately. As we've been feeling the heat, we...

The past couple of weeks have been buzzing at Figg Street Co. Customers have been filled with June energy: a busy feeling of activity created by the long sunlit days,...

In my first year of university, I met a wonderful woman who arrived from Italy just a month and a half before the school year commenced. She wanted to learn...

How do you celebrate Father's Day? Do you have an annual ritual, or do you do something different every year? Any new dads in your social circle?  We know many...

So much of what is presented to us on a daily basis - in the news, online, in movies and series - feed us thoughts and ideas stemming from fear....

One of the things I love about the stationery and gifts business is discovering items that elevate the ordinary to the extraordinary. Seeing, touching, and using small tools, supplies and...

Tuesday's Tonic is a having a bit of a variations-on-a-theme moment of late. Regal purple and royalty led me to think of queen bees and how purple plants attract pollinators....

The Victoria Day long weekend is coming up, in honour of Queen Victoria. Canada is also hosting King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the end of the month. If...

This Sunday is Mother's Day! Since I'm not a mother myself, I thought it would be fun to interview someone close to me who is: my little sister, Jackie!  Jackie...