For someone who has an extraordinarily low tolerance for structure, I'm really missing my normal routine. It may not actually be the routine I'm missing, but the space? I miss my home. My jogs in the
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Last summer we opened up the wall between our living room and what's now kind of like a sub-living-room, or a den. Our 90-year-old Craftsmen bungalow feels much more airy and open now, and I've enjoye
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We headed into the mountains last weekend to catch a couple of events at Whistler.  The town of Whistler is designated a "resort municipality", which means it's a resort first and foremost. The centr
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Kids, my city is a giant party. We went Downtown yesterday afternoon to see what Vancouver's like during the Olympics. (We live in the city of Vancouver, but about a half-hour from Downtown by bus
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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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Dude. Game knitting. You have to try this. Lee Meredith's ebook about it is worth the download. I printed the relevant pages and brought them with me on a wee trip we took last weekend, and I'm not
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...ago today, we got hitched in our living room. (Photo from Pam Bethel's photobooth at our friends' wedding last weekend.)
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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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Saturday I went to my third big craft fair this summer. The first was Art Star in Philadelphia; the second was Renegade in Brooklyn. On Saturday morning (not early enough, we soon learned), Rhiannon,
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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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