This weekend, there's a "Pedestrian Celebration" happening on St. Clair from Vaughan to Winona, called Feet on the Street. They've closed that section of the street off to car traffic, kind of like the Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, except that it included part of today as well as most of the day tomorrow ( Read more... )

Some people seem to be under the impression that shopping at farmers' markets is expensive. Really, that depends a whole lot on what you buy. In my experience, buying things like cheese, smoked fish, preserves or other prepared foods can indeed add up pretty quickly, but buying just your basic fresh produce is usually very affordable - in fact, ( Read more... )

I can has 36 hour day plz?

Or just stop time for a week or so while I get caught up. That would do it too...

Maybe more like a month.

Wow.

I just spent the weekend and then some (to be specific: Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings plus Saturday and Sunday daytimes) at the Radical Business Intensive, a really amazing business and marketing seminar for green or otherwise socially conscious business people ( Read more... )

There is something particularly enjoyable about putting the finishing touches on a new class on pagan epistemology and critical thinking, while listening to Nightwish at as high a volume as I can manage without disturbing the baby.

Smelling like many delicious spices courtesy of BPAL's Plunder scent makes it even better.

And having optimystik bring me ( Read more... )

Sent to me by a friend:The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is an annual event aimed at increasing awareness of the ecological importance/ sensitivities of shorelines across the country as well as physically removing debris that can kill wildlife. More info: http://www.vanaqua.org/cleanup ( Read more... )

A discussion earlier tonight helped crystallize something I'd been thinking about on and off for a while - about one of the ways that the choice of words used to express something can have a lot of subtle impacts, and sometimes expose certain underlying assumptions ( Read more... )

Thing One: Happy birthday, cleasai!

Thing Two: In response to discussion at 9ICB, I have created a new community, for bisexuals who are coming to bisexuality from previously identifying as gay, lesbian, trans or something else "out of the ordinary", as opposed to from a straight identity, and are thus basically coming out a second time after having ( Read more... )

I am having one of those days where I just don't understand the human race, or at least the portions of it I most frequently come in contact with. It just seems like there's been a huge string of conflicts and blow-ups lately among people I know, and so many of them just seem unnecessary ( Read more... )

Well, we managed to pull together our little pagan contingent, although "little" is definitely the operative word here! There were only eight of us. But we still had fun ( Read more... )