things I’m making, glasses I’m fixing and books I’m not reading
Made new art work made from felt (now if only I could figure out how to not write an exhibition submission) Carefully scoured down my old plum coloured metal glasses…
mae callen
School’s out forever: No more pencils / No more books
Today, I handed in the final requirement for my Master’s degree, a major (90 + plus page) research paper. As someone who finds reading and writing arduous, over-rated and shamefully…
White Supremacy and Quilting: Stupid things I say
My new years resolution is to quite writing in my free time and start doing, making and watching. But I had to just get this one out. As part of…
I’ve started a food blog.
Seems as though I'm too happy to write here anymore. Nothing really to complain about, aside from my hammock branch getting cut down. I seem to have hung up the…
Jess McCormack: work = worth = innocence
I just wanted to take a quick opportunity to direct your gaze at the work of a friend of mine, Jess McCormack. Her recent work explores some of the interconnected…
For Mohamed Harkat
Security Certificates allow for detention of refugees and immigrants without charge or access to the evidence for national security reasons. Mohamed Harkat - Moe to his friends - is one…
Your tree, my hammock, a love story
Dear City Forestry Department, Recently the city pruned the branches off the trees in my neighbourhood, including the tree in my front law. Now I realize you are experts in…
Police seek help in locating Ottawa woman missing since July 4
Police seek help in locating Ottawa woman missing since July 4 Ottawa police are searching for Meredith Westlake who has been missing since July 4.Photograph by: Image supplied, Ottawa Police…
The streets of Philadelphia
Joy and I just got back from an amazing weekend visit to Philadelphia, and I was blown away by the city. I have been to many cities around the world…
And life is like a song (at last)
See figure 3.
Then they come together again
In June of 2009, I wrote a post called 'When things fall apart'. It's the title of a Pema Chodron book, which Jamine lent me. Here is the quote I…
Mark. Your. Calendars.
"Ça fait 10 ans, ce soir, cette affaire" On January 29, Venus Envy is celebrating it's 10th anniversary. 10 years of sex positive workshops, sex toys, harnesses, binders, stuffers, pokers,…
New York Times for January 4, 2011.
I am not "a reader". Fiction rarely catches me, websites and blogs too, and boring non-ficton, never. But there are a few things I do love reading. I loved harry…
A single man
"you know the only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile....it's been those few times when I've been able to truly connect with another human being" Recently, the Lively…
Boarder control: Eyes wide shut
"Love, even old love nestles itself into the space that two people hold each other with their eyes." These were my words, just a half dozen pages back, as I…
Re: my mother
Grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.