As you may know from my vague and sporadic tweets and all my allusions to stress, last week was a tough one.
See, the day before we left town for Greg's grandfather's funeral, we got a call fro
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As you may know from my vague and sporadic tweets and all my allusions to stress, last week was a tough one.
See, the day before we left town for Greg's grandfather's funeral, we got a call fro
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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. Tha
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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 resear
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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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That's how my friend titled an email to me Monday night, after hearing the news that Patrick Swayze lost his two-year fight against the disease. This just a day after my parents put on their big fundr
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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 comp
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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 secon
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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 b
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When I was twenty-five and working at a job that was grueling and thankless and rendered me suffering from stress-induced stomach aches, I eventually decided I'd had enough and I quit. I was engaged a
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I believe everything he says here, and I ask the same questions. If you'd like to chime in on those questions, please do. No fighting, no all-caps yelling. Just discussion.
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