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Today's discovery: the best way to pass the time on a long bus ride with a small child, or possibly even without one for that matter, is to come up with entertaining story snippets for each stop they announce. Examples from this evening's ride on the Don Mills bus, all the way from Danforth up to Fairview Mall (to get the Lynxcub the belated main ( Read more... )

These are awesome.

They remind me a little bit of the text-collage poems I used to do when I was in university, but (like most creative pursuits) haven't done as much since then. But in a cool artistic jewelry form. She takes bits from old fairy tale books and assembles them into little mini-poems on ceramic pendants. WANT.

I took the Lynxcub to visit my father and stepmother earlier today - he always likes going to see them and apparently was announcing the impending visit over and over before I picked him up, to kettunainen and optimystik and even random strangers on the subway ( Read more... )