I'm on holiday with a friend this week, volunteering at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary and otherwise soaking in the stunning scenery of southwestern Utah (and a little bit of Las Vegas). Best Friends is a massive no-kill facility; we've met dogs rescued from hoarding situations, puppy mills and some surrendered by families who...
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One of the things I love and hate about my city is the passion people put into complaining about it (myself included). To an impressive extent, the complaining is in a productive context and isn't just aimless whining. But it can seem at times like the default attitude here is that everything sucks.
Last winter...
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I didn't know what to expect when I got us tickets to the grand tasting hall at the Hopscotch Festival, the Vancouver beer and whisky event. I was hoping the place would be filled with vendors who know their craft. See, we enjoy our whisky chez Werker. And so we wanted to go and...
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A few months ago I blogged on CrochetMe.com about a scarf I made using the extended half double crochet stitch. A reader asked if I'd explain how to do that, so I did! Not a crocheter? Well, you should be.
(You can subscribe to the videoblog in iTunes just like a podcast. Shiny! Need no-Flash?...
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After my missive on not being a media outlet and how most emails from publicists end up in my overflowing trash, gentle reader Brigette Mayer asked some questions worth exploring further.
Brigette's general take was that my assumption that this topic has been discussed to death is an inaccurate one. And she's right. I was...
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I've been thinking about my book-buying habits lately. Partly because I've been reading ebooks on my iPad and partly just because I'm fascinated by the evolving business of publishing.
So I decided to be systematic.
Here's a list of the books I've read in the last year, and either how I found out about them or...
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In the last week I've read 1165 pages of young-adult oppressive-dystopia reality-television-bashing coming-of-age revolution fiction.
The Hunger Games trilogy chronicles the tale of Katniss Everdeen, a teenager whose big heart, indomitable spirit and rage land her on the front lines of a fight to change a reality she never really thought to question.
It's sometime in...
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Last Thursday I spent the day doing very ugly arts and crafts with all sorts of interesting people as part of the Exhibition at the CreativeMix conference here in Vancouver. It was the first time in many, many years that I had to prepare a visual display for something, and here's the story of...
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For a while, I had a line in my professional bio that I dream of quilting. I've always had a fair amount of anxiety about sewing. I couldn't sew in a straight line; my machine, basic as it is, was a mystery to me; I never really grokked how it all works.
Then an old...
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