Celebration x3
I used to be a bit of a culture vulture – went to concerts, museums and galleries, the opera and dance (modern, traditional ballet sort of bores me) – and most of the time, I went either with my mother or Ken. It was our “thing” and I have a lot of good memories connected…
Hero Worship
I don’t use the term ‘hero’ often and I don’t have an awful lot of personal heroes – in fact, I think it might take me it some time to come up with even a small list. But last week, when I rooted around on the new 7-day releases at my video store (where you…
Assumptions
I’ve been thinking about assumptions. More specifically, the assumptions made by certain bright lights in festivals and other organizations. Assumptions about the audience, the people who will come out to shop, to participate. Assumptions about whether these include people with disabilities, people who use wheelchairs or scooters. And apparently, we aren’t expected to attend Buskerfest….
A Beginners Guide to RA: Love & the Horizontal Tango
This week on HealthCentral, I go on about romance and sex: “One of my favourite frog stories — as in, “you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince” — was the man who said he didn’t want to date me because he wanted an equal partner. As I’d managed to…
2009 Calendar Contest
I’ve been slaving over a hot computer for a while, gathering images that qualified as candidates for next year’s calendar and this weekend, did the final push, Photoshopping like mad and battling with CafePress designs (which are deceptively easy-looking). My shoulder’s fucked, I’m cross-eyed, need several day’s worth of codeine and sleep, had a blast…
Reading Lolita in Toronto
Last year, in response to NaNoWriMo, Matthew over at Defective Yeti came up with NaNoReMo – same concept, except instead of writing a novel in the month of November, he read one and blogged about it. Much less work! Last year, he chose Catch-22 and although I enjoyed reading about his experience, I’d read it…
I Thought It Was a Science?
Earlier this week, I read a post on one of the HealthCentral sites by one of their medical experts. This doctor started by saying she did not “believe in” a particular medical problem and continued to explain how she had come around by experiencing it herself. The particular site, doctor and medical problem are irrelevant…
Etched Window
Congratulations to those of you in the USA for an election that’s reminded the rest of us why voting is such a terrific idea. Nicely done.
In Summary
The other day, I was having conversation with a friend – you know the kind (the conversation, that is, not the friend) – the kind that takes place late at night when it’s dark outside, your shields are down, making you get all deep and philosophical. Great fun, but it makes you think for days….