A storytelling home by Léa Plourde-Archer

Modern tales of a messy abode

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She/her. Montrealer. Full-time freelance content creator, blogger and translator (French to English/ English to French). Currently working on several manuscripts about the life of composer Violet Archer (my great aunt).

Month: May 2013

  • Five artists to discover: May 2013 edition

    This is my third monthly list of the music that’s been playing on my Ipod in the last few weeks. (Click the links to check out the lists for March and April) Once again, expect a diverse mix with artists hailing from all parts of the world! N.O.H.A The acronym N.O.H.A. stands for Noise of…

  • Picture post: Ile Sainte-Marguerite, near Cannes

    We visited the city of Cannes when we lived in the south of France for 4 months. Our day-trip happened in December, way off-season in terms of tourism. This meant that there wasn’t much to do. Cannes is a typical French Riviera town but with more cardboard cutouts of George Clooney and over-sized posters with Marilyn Monroe’s face on…

  • Untapped Cities: Montreal Bagels

    In my latest article for Untapped Cities, I waxed poetic about the one and only Montreal bagel. I was walking on thin ice, writing about bagels on a blog that is based in New York. So far, the debate on Facebook has fallen in the Big apple’s favor, but only because the Untapped readers hailing…

  • The sunny days of Spring: An afternoon at Mont-Royal park

    It’s that time of the year again! As soon as the weather lets us trade our down jackets and giant snow boots for tees and flipflops, most of us Montrealers feel this urgent need to get out of our house. During those short summer months where we can actually stay outside for more than 15…