Hello – thanks for visiting!

This is me, back a few years ago when I was a mere infant.

I’m Hilary, and, besides being very poor at writing biographies, here are some other qualities and quirks that I possess.

I’m a writer, cyclist, explorer and local enthusiast. I enjoy making DIY projects, watching my favourite movie, Amélie, and jogging outside between the months of January and February.

I like colour, mismatched jars and my button collection that combines these two things.

I once missed a Greyhound-like bus in Norway and had to cry to Norwegian speaking officials until I got back to where I was supposed to be.

I enjoy inserting personal side notes in brackets the way Chuck Klosterman employs footnotes.

My favourite food smells are lemon zest, almond extract and oven-baked brie. My favourite foods are zucchini, mushrooms, milk chocolate with sea salt, Stella Luna gelato and oven-baked brie.

Some things that I hope to be fortunate enough to do in my lifetime
- Road trip across Canada and make a documentary about my adventures
- Open some sort of food business (probably a bakery) in a shipping container in San Francisco
- Report from one (or more) of Canada’s territories
- Hike Machu Picchu, walk the Camino de Santiago, climb Mount Kilimanjaro and backpack through Nepal and India
- Learn to speak German
- Write my way around the world

Technicalities
I’m a recent graduate of Carleton University’s bachelor of journalism program. After I graduated I sucked up my pride and dragged my independent butt back home to Sudbury where I now live and report for CBC radio, which is super fun and awesome. You should visit our website.

Need to talk? You can drop me a line at hilary.dot.duff@gmail.com.

27 comments
  1. Yes, that Weber name is the same one that your room mate has. In fact, we are related.

    You have an excellent blog Hilary. I am going to pimp it on my site for you.

    Nice work.

    Dave

  2. jessey said:

    Great blog!

    Interested in doing a guest post on http://www.localtouristottawa.com?

    Send us a note if you’d like to participate in our project. We’d love to have you.

    Cheers,
    Jessey

  3. Helene said:

    Love your blog. My daughter is graduating this year from Carleton in Journalism.

  4. Helene said:

    Hi, we looked at your picture and she said that she does not remember seeing you. We want to try your Spring Chicken Salad, it looks so yuummy!

  5. just checking… by “instinctive kick when things are done in the oven”, do you mean, you pull them out every thirty seconds, so chances are, at one of the 30 second intervals, they will in fact be done? ;) Wuv you

  6. Kelsey said:

    I can totally make a veggie believer out of you my friend. Mmhmm. Love your blog! So cute :) I totally have vegan cafe envy when I look at your photos. Yum much?! I’m all about connecting with like-minded young people out on this big old web. I’m glad I stopped by!

  7. You are going to find this hilarious.. So, I was on wordpress checking up what was ‘freshly pressed’ and came across this, and saw the name and the town and wondered if it might be the Hilary I took lifeguarding courses in Timmins with! Anyway, nice to see its you and glad you’re doing well!
    -Steph Higgs

  8. Hey Hilary! I love your blog– you seem like such a creative person! I found you on freshly pressed- congrats on that!!

  9. Thanks so much Hilary, for your kind words! Looks like you’ve got a great blog here and I’m really looking forward to taking a closer look around.
    Best-
    ~M

  10. Stack Brewing said:

    Wow, nice blog. Almost like scanning through the pages of a home/cooking/lifestyle etc magazine. Love the pictures but your missing beer.lol

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