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Please let me give you more money!

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A couple weeks ago, Jaime and I found ourselves in a small-town bakery. I’d never been there before, so I found myself taking in every detail in all its baked-good glory. And while I did drool over the cheese scones, the raisin bread, and the cinnamon rolls (the smell of fresh bread was enough to [...]

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Avoid becoming a divorced, homeless drunk. Hire an editor.

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Once upon a time, Bob had an important email to send his boss. Bob was tired that morning, having stayed up late to watch the hockey game the night before, and was in a hurry to top up his coffee. In usual Bob style, he didn’t bother to read his email over before pressing “Send.” [...]

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Why WordPress floats our boat

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Here at Manley Mann Media, we’re quite open about only using WordPress for building websites. There’s a reason for this. If we wanted to, we could use a number of platforms to whip up a snazzy site for you (we’re not hiding the fact that we have some pretty awesome designers at our beck and [...]

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Someone’s hiding behind the mailbox.

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So the other day, I was getting the mail when I heard voices. Loud voices. I live in a (usually) quiet neighbourhood, so any noise would cause me to tilt an ear, but this wasn’t regular day-time chatter. I heard two men yelling at each other. From what I could gather, there was a contractor [...]

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Your eyes are pretty . . . but mine are better

It’s nothing personal, but the fact is, you can’t trust your own eyes when dealing with your words. A friend once told me that the best piece of advice she received in journalism school was this: “You have to learn how to kill your babies.” You see, your words are kind of like your babies.  [...]