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centre of the universe: Standing – NaBloPoMo Day 16
It’s Giftmas Sales Season (GSS) and I get to person the booth at the first big giftmas market of the year. You may think this
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There’s an interesting conundrum in the fall, that gets people arguing every year. More than just Daylight Saving Time (which is silly and all this
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Let’s take a moment to remember the origins of something that’s changed the way we do business, the way we consume arts and culture, and
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*warning: you may wish to pre-clutch your pearls because this is a seriously hardcore post* we went to the new Costco today. I was supposed
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Whoops. So here’s the thing. NEW PHONE WHO DIS – yeah, I got a new phone. I thought everything was working but I was, as
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My mum was a brilliant woman. So was my grandmother. So is my aunt. So is my other aunt. It’s pretty cool the amount of
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I worked pretty hard this past weekend. I was at a retreat. Had some rewriting to do on a manuscript. Thought it’d be easy. Boy,
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Home – NaBloPoMo Day 6
Pretty sure that in most prairie homes there is someone’s gran’s needlework that says “home is where the heart is”. We never had that on
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I don’t like snow skies. I don’t like grey air and grey skies. Not one bit. I look at the ground a lot when there’s
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My father was asking recently whether any more of my articles might be featured on the CBC website. I mentioned I hadn’t pitched any lately,
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Sometimes I’m positive the dog has the right idea. Probably this is why people started keeping their domesticated animals in their houses with them; they
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Road Trip – NaBloPoMo Day 2
I was on the road today. I got out early owing to the fact that the weather people said it *probably* wasn’t going to start
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Okay. I’m going to attempt to do NaBloPoMo, which doesn’t actually have anything to do with blowing anything, no matter how it may look from
Continue readingcentre of the universe: A Canadian (Thanksgiving) Parable
Once there was a Queen. She reigned over many lands, in the manner of constitutional monarchies with their own parliamentary systems based largely, if not
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There’s little doubt that cannabis and cannabinoids (not an alien race of green-skinned interstellar travellers, but the compounds that comprise the active ingredients in cannabis,
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A Story of Parenting, Told in School Supplies Kindergarten, First Child: I purchased these school supplies over a year ago, have been awake since Friday
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Something nobody tells you when you have children is that the second you have kids, everyone else on the face of the planet instantly becomes
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So I don’t want to toot my own horn here (yes I do. I really, really do. Toot! Toot! Toot!) but there’s this thing that
Continue readingcentre of the universe: Get it? Got it. Good!
Dear media owners: This will be the nth time I have attended a “free seminar” on “how to do effective advertising”. As someone who has
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