Hard to believe that tomorrow is Pace’s kindergarten graduation. The past year has flown by in so many ways – when the year started, Pace was an only child; now he’s a big brother. When the year started, he was still working on learning his alphabet, now he’s regularly writing out complete sentences (phonetically – […]
This Pinterest site takes photos of youngsters dressed in fashionable clothes and provides hilarious write-ups to narrate the life of Quinoa, the trendy perfect child of trendy perfect parents. Funny stuff. Everything went fine at Quinoa’s playdate with Booker until she realized that when he said he loved vinyl, he meant jackets not vintage records.
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As we close in on the end of one of the shortest (due to lockout) and longest (in terms of how far it’s gone into June) NHL seasons in history, Reddit has a fun thread celebrating many of hockey’s lighter moments.
…like when I see a video like this:
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, […]
