Remember back in February when I went to the Northern Voice blogging conference and I said the only good things about it were the keynotes, one of the sessions, and hanging out with a couple of cool people? One of those people was my friend Zak. I know Zak through Mandy Moore (and, by...
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Let's talk about health care. You know I'm happy with the care I receive here in British Columbia; I don't think the system's perfect, but I've had no major complaints about it, and it compares favorably against the care I got when I lived in the U.S. But I...
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I'll let myself sum it up for you, video style:
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Thanks to the stunning generosity of friends, family, blog readers, Twitter followers, and perfect strangers, I blew past my original goal to raise $500 for pancreatic-cancer research by the second day of my fund-raising effort. By the end of that day, I'd raised over $1,000. I've upped my goal to $1,500.
The fundraising walk outside...
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I was in a cranky, cranky mood yesterday when we went downtown to meet some friends to ride the new RAV (aka Canada) Line* for free on its opening day. I had PMS, I'd forgotten to eat lunch while writing my last blog post which resulted in the scarfing-down of a peanut butter sandwich...
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When I got off the bus to meet my friend for a hungover shopping date in Gastown on Saturday afternoon, I greeted her with this gem:
"I am such an asshole."
"Um, hm?"
"Ok, so 4th Avenue is closed between Arbutus and Burrard today for Hippy Daze*, and on the detour I saw a bunch of women...
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After having so much fun interviewing Sister Diane on Twitter a couple of weeks ago, I'm excited to announce a Twitter event with several of the designers who contributed to my new book, Crocheted Gifts. We'll do sort of a live chat for a full hour on Tuesday, 25th August,...
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Saturday I went to my third big craft fair this summer. The first was Art Star in Philadelphia; the second was Renegade in Brooklyn.
On Saturday morning (not early enough, we soon learned), Rhiannon, Lili, Becka and I hit the road. As Lili pointed out, we would be crossing the border on the first morning...
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