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 second day of my fund-raising effort. By the end of that day, I'd raised over $1,000. I've upped my goal to $1,500.
The fundraising walk outside...
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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 between Arbutus and Burrard today for Hippy Daze*, and on the detour I saw a bunch of women...
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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 at the time, and living with my fiancé. We were to be legally married three months later.
When I told my...
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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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OMG. Have you heard about the furor over a pre-teen book that uses the word "scrotum"?
Seriously? It's not even slang. It doesn't even have a derogatory connotation.
Every kid should know the word and what it means. That it's specifically school librarians who are up in arms over this makes the frenzy even more...
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