Diane Gilleland has been writing and podcasting (with Paul over at Dudecraft) about "free" this week, and as always I've been reading and listening with giddy excitement because she tackles such
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It's a busy heatwavy week over here. As the dog alternates between sleeping and panting and I sit very slowly wishing I could do the same (everything is done very slowly during a heatwave, see), I mar
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So the first four months of my yearlong amorphous adventure have passed and I thought I'd explore what I did with myself, what I'd planned to do with myself, what I'm doing now and what I might do nex
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Image via Wikipedia I had two favourite books when I was a young child. One became the seed of my desperate need to see absurdity in every day life (The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, by Dr. Seuss),
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Nothing like going into a new year with a heaping pile of books to read. After considering high-school reads I want to revisit, I stumbled upon the 9 Books for 2009 challenge to work through books i
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I've recently started to get to know Linda Permann, who's delightfully crafty, and is full-tilt raising funds to help her brother-in-law as he battles kidney cancer and can't work. I've donated a cop
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I read The Andromeda Strain when I was around thirteen years old. I grabbed my dad's yellowed copy off his towering shelves of sci-fi and pretty much devoured it. It might be the book that sparked my
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I had a great chat with Marly about the fall issue of IC last week, which should go out in her next podcast. Massive kudos to Apple and Google for seeing the issue of gay marriage for what it is:
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Last night our book club discussed Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje. I finished the book a few weeks ago and spent the time since anticipating the discussion. I had high hopes—I needed to figure out
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I spent several hours yesterday trying to find a WordPress plugin that will automatically generate a daily digest of stuff I post on Tumblr. It might be that Tumblr is too new. Dunno. Anyway, I found
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