Where's my favourite west-coast place to visit? Portland! The home of Powell's Books and mecca of the crafts world will play host to the Summit of Awesome from June 16-18.
Why do I love working in crafts? Because when crafters throw a conference, we call it the Summit of Awesome. It's put on by promoters...
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Glee got me thinking tonight. It got me thinking about hate.
I had like the anti-high school high school experience. Not "anti" like "against". More like "anti" like "antimatter". I hibernated. That's the way I think of it. I put my head down and woke up on the first day of university.
It wasn't a conscious...
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The Sadness
I started off this morning crying before I even had a chance to drink my coffee.
Last September when I went to Albany, NY, to participate in the fundraiser for pancreatic cancer research my parents spearhead every year, it was bittersweet to bump into Janice, an old high school friend. We hadn't been close...
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An uncomfortable, riveting, beautifully written novel about a schizophrenic teenager named Will, his mother, and the detective looking for Will after he went off his meds and on the lam in the New York City subway system in search of the girl he believes will help him save the world from global warming.
I consider...
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So many little things collecting in my brain, and I haven't set any of them down here. Time to remedy that! *Rolls in my trusted bulleted list.*
After a decade wondering what it would be like, I was on the radio. Not live radio, but radio all the same. In a studio, with a schmancy...
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Way back in school, you were probably taught that contractions had no place in your essays and reports. School was to be for formal writing. You put two spaces after every period, you compiled a perfect bibliography, and so as not to sound like a kid you banished the contraction to the lowly realm...
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Have I ever mentioned that the whole let's-do-an-interview-about-crafts-with-Joss-Whedon thing was the most fun I've ever had online? Well, if I failed to mention it, consider it immortalized here in bytes (until the EMP strikes and all this work we've done is obliterated).
The fun started nearly two years ago, the interview was in November of...
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I didn't much enjoy attending the Northern Voice personal blogging conference last year, but I decided to give it another go this year, for several reasons. First and foremost, in the last fifteen months I've met a lot of local bloggers. So I was more comfortable in the community than I was last year,...
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