Warmth and Cheer in Winter: Part 1

Thursday night, on my way home through the foggy evening, knowing I could stay home, all on my own, ’til Saturday noon-ish, I stopped by the grocery store and stocked up on soup mixings (hey,…

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Language exploration in Edeet Ravel’s Ten Thousand Lovers

I hope I’ll get a chance soon to write about my most recent reading: Bill Gaston’s Sointula as my “fun, own-choice” reading (with an extra bit of inspiration from Mardel) and Rebecca Godfrey’s The Torn…

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calming down in the fog

First, thanks to those of you who wished my mom and my family well as she went through surgery and the following treatment period. Surgery went well on Friday, only the second of its laparoscopically-guided…

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Stuck in the Middle With . . . Worry and Guilt!

We spotted this charmingly cheery graffiti near some guerrilla gardening along the railroad tracks not far from Vancouver’s Granville Island back in November, the day before Nola was born actually. Cheery seems just the ticket…

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knitting update — first of 2009

My first knitting FO (finished object) of the New Year, waaaaay behind Jillian over at Sknitty. I actually had this finished by January 5th or 6th but had to wait to show it here because…

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