For the Value of INefficiency — hurrah!

Last summer, I quoted from a BC Bookworld review of Shannon Stratton’s essay “Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft and Free Time,” published in Volume III of Craft Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse, edited by…

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Acceptance as/or Re-Invention

I wrote this post some time ago, but then let the draft sit, almost deleting it once or twice. Then I saw Duchesse’s post today and her query about how we might be re-inventing ourselves…

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Torn Between Two Lovers, I mean Homes . . .

Right now, it’s beautiful back on our little island, the beach, the waves, the garden, the hammock . . . But I’m still in Vancouver where there are exhibits (Rembrandt/Vermeer at the Vanc’r Art Gallery),…

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A Loud Bang and Some Cheering Music

Did you hear that loud bang? That was my summer, coming to a crashing halt. Yesterday I was hanging out in the hammock, reading (admittedly, I was reading a heavily footnoted academic tome, but still).…

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goodbye ottawa, hello montreal . . .

My presentation went well– thanks for your good wishes — although poor program planning meant that our panel ran out of time for questions — really too bad as that feedback can be so helpful…

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Copyright

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