I've been buried lately in boxes--trying during my one week of vacation-time to finish all the unpacking and sorting and storing left over from my move in early July! ... when I plunged immediately into my new job ... then worked on finishing my paper for Lumos ... But today I received a most interesting e-mail from my friend junewilliams7 letting me know about ( Read more... )

Finally ... my condo's on the market! People say it should sell quickly: 12-foot high ceilings, oak trim, fireplace, almost 1200 sq ft in a 1912 heritage building . . . etc, blah blah. Here's hoping they're right, because I don't want to go to Vancouver at the end of June and have to worry about selling a property long-distance while hitting the ( Read more... )

Edited on 15 March to correct "Power Puff Girls" (speaking of getting it right!). However, I copied "Powder Puff Girls" directly from the GAM article, which clearly didn't.
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This weekend I was innocently skimming a review of a new book called See Jane Hit: Why Girls are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It, and just about ( Read more... )

Remember those famous dictates about clarity in Politics and the English Language•Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print ( Read more... )

It's another centrist minority government in Canada, eh? Oh, um, except they're called "The Conservatives." Though acc'd to today's New York Times, you'd think they should be called "The Evangelists" and that voters have just exorcised the devil:

Mr. Harper, 46, is a free-market economist who expressed strong support for Washington at the time ( Read more... )

Hey hey, it's election day . . . but since it's our second in the past 18 months, I'm not surprised it's barely registering on non-Canadian political radar screens. Even though I'm almost paralysed with apathy about our political scene, I'm going to my polling place to exercise my right to vote (for ???) out of respect for the fact that in the ( Read more... )

Quite aside from the horrific events in New Orleans (the imagination boggles and the heart shudders), the question of fuel costs is on many people's minds.

Excerpt from an editorial in The Globe and Mail, Thursday Sept. 1, 2005:

It might make us think a bit, for one thing. It might make us think about our love affair with big gas-guzzling cars ( Read more... )

Apparently the people holding the key to the secrets of the universe--oops, I mean HBP--are a few pre-teens and their parents living someone in Cocquitlam, 30 km east of Vancouver, who bought copies mistakenly distributed in a Great Canadian Superstore. They're being bribed to return their copies with Harry Potter T-shirts and bookplates ( Read more... )