[caption id="attachment_444" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="I done played with paints."][/caption] For the past 4 years, I've contributed a painting (and I DO lose that term loosely) to an amazing cause: the Kidney Foundation of Canada.  They get REAL Canadian celebrities (and then there's me) to make an original...

...and we're off! Or - on - as the case may be. The Radio This past Saturday I started my regular weekend gig with 925 The Beat.   And I loved every second of it.  I have been overwhelmed by the suppport.  Like, really.  You've shown me that personalities...

Originally published, July 15th, 2010

They always say you know when it's 'time'. This applies to a lot of things. You know when it's time to poop, time to get off the Tilt-a-Whirl and time to listen when you start to feel your heart pulling in a new direction.

So - yes, it's true. I've decided to leave Virgin Radio. And, let me just thwart any firmly-worded emails from my mother to management - my departure is all on good terms. All my decision. So you have no one to purple nurple but me (and I sort of like that so you won't be doing yourself any favours). "Time flies" is such a geriatic thing to say, so pardon me as I cough up a cobweb - but man, the years have disappeared faster than Snooki's natural skin colour! 1999 is the year I first moved here to host N@ @ Nite on Mix 96. Then it was Andre and Nat in the Morning (I'll tell him you said hi) and finally middays on Virgin where I've been the past several years. Shoehorned in there for the early part of your workday. I liked being there (especially Mondays when you all were too hungover from the weekend to even be pissed at your bosses yet. Stop looking around at everyone else, you know I'm talking to you).

I'll freely admit - I'm a dewy-eyed fawn in the Cult of Oprah. She's good people. She's done good things. And she just really knows her demographic (dewy-eyed fawns..duh!). When I was 17, I done wrote me a letter to Oprah. And look what I...

Just an FYI that I recently made the decision to stop writing my "Natterings" column for The Monitor/Chronicle and Westmount Examiner. I LOVED it - it was such an amazing opportunity to have had for the past 2 years or so. Hopefully, I can archive my pieces...