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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Kim Werker
Nothing is too precious to try at least once.
Activism
Star Trek Made Me Cry (AKA I’m Asking You for Money Again)
We’re All Freaks.
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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Turning Sadness Upside Down, Big Time
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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Let’s Talk About Science, Theism, Feminism and Boobquake
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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Nobody Puts Pancreatic Cancer in the Corner
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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Talk to Me (Us All) About Health Care: Open Thread
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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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A New Goal
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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In Which I Ask You for Money
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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Health Care: Friend or Foe?
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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Olbermann: Gay marriage is a question of love
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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