I’ve written about Sam Baker before – a Texas singer-songwriter whose ultra-streamlined literary style and unique vocals have drawn comparisons to Leonard Cohen: Baker captivated me. His songs are closely observed narratives of eccentric and marginalized people finding meaning in seemingly defeated lives–almost like Leonard Cohen’s, if Cohen had been a Baptist raised in West […]
A female author, tired of being asked to “put a guy cover on her books so the guys can read it” asks her Twitter followers to “flip” the gender of the authors of a variety of popular works with the resulting changes to the covers of their books providing all kinds of hilarious results (The […]
Found this clip buried in a folder on my hard drive… One thing I’ll always remember about this trip to a writing event I helped organize in Medicine Hat in 2002 – why do event organizers (even other writers who should know better!) often provide a huge meal right before an event when the energy […]
Pace went to a birthday party today and got a bubble tube as part of the goody bag treats. As soon as we got home, he suggested using it as a “light saver” so we could play Star Wars. (I also have to note that after the party, Pace told us that he was the […]
Went to TEDxRegina yesterday and honestly, my thoughts on the afternoon, with a couple exceptions, are pretty much the same as my thoughts on the inaugural one in 2012. Perhaps because I usually cherry-pick the best TEDTalks when watching online, both years I’ve gone in expecting all TEDx talks will be stellar too. But honestly, […]
I hope this doesn’t happen at Pace’s kindergarten graduation in a couple weeks! 😉 This is my favourite quote from an article that’s full of all kinds of crazy details (“shots were not fired but someone did pick up a hammer”.) Cleveland Police Commander Wayne Drummond said investigators were trying to confirm reports that a […]
Went with Pace while he rode his new birthday bike over to a playground near our house. Along the way, we passed the house of one of his kindergarten classmates who was playing in her front yard and then, at the playground, another classmate happened to be there playing as well. As I sat on […]
If you can get past the gratuitous swearing, the Fucking Home Page actually has pretty interesting content each new day.
There are lots of possibilities but if I did a photo like this for our cat, one of the first captions to spring to mind would be: “Whipping around the house should only be done at 3am with my owner’s bed as the best place to practice my hairpin turns.” 😉
Over the years, I’ve occasionally posted about some of the search terms that were bringing people to my blog. I did this once a few months after starting my blog in 2006 and again during the 2009 NDP Leadership Race and probably a few other times as well. I thought it might be interesting to re-visit the […]
