Last week a woman in Indiana shot off a quick blog post in response to a report in the Chicago Tribune about an Iranian Muslim cleric who said immodestly dressed women corrupt young men and spread adu
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I've been invited to speak alongside Rob of Lotus Events and Got Craft?, and Erin of Collage Collage when the Museum of Vancouver screens Handmade Nation next week. I'm so excited! If you're unfami
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I've spent much of this afternoon trying to write about the Olympics – not in the I-was-there way I've been doing, but to sum up my emotional experience of the Games. I can't do it. It's too
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Where Vanoc (the Vancouver Organizing Committee) has done an utterly terrible job of engaging the people of Vancouver leading up to the Olympics, there is one thing that's made people f
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When Vancouver was awarded the 2010 Olympics, I was a recent immigrant to Canada. I sat in the barely half-full stadium for the live announcement, and when it came I felt my first feeling of being Can
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I thought a couple weeks into 2010 I'd do a little wrap-up of 2009. It was, after all, a fairly unusual year for me. Also, I've neglected my pal the bulleted list and I feel I owe him a big one.
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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 writ
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I went to a meeting in Gastown today. I love being in busy parts of the city during the day. It makes me happy. Also, all the stimulation makes my brain spin faster, which overall leads to more and be
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For the second day in a row, I woke up this morning to discover I'm 33 years old. Yesterday, my first day at 33, I woke up at 6AM like a kid on Christmas morning if that kid happens to celebrate Ch
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On 9th July I'm turning 33. Many decades will pass before my Roman and binary age will again both be palindromes. Also, Handmade Nation will be screening in Vancouver that night, and filmmaker Faythe
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