Googling (.ca) permaculture turns up Speed River Journal in the first page. And I've only just begun.

Driving home from Port Hope this afternoon offered me an opportunity to hear some compelling programming on CBC Radio 2. Both books mentioned here sound like interesting reading.

Spark rebroadcast an interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (full interview and transcript), author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. He writes: " ( Read more... )

As a child I was the archetypal dreamer. Whenever possible I would sit alone on the school bus, gazing out the window. I never caused trouble in school, except for failing to pay attention.

The imaginary playmates of early childhood persisted into my teens, taking the form of chivalrous adventurers. The worlds of C.S. Lewis and Ursula K. LeGuin ( Read more... )

We were to have a party at the Book Shelf for OOTS volunteers last night. My revelation about the Bible had galvanized my work on the novel, inspiring me to write. I went downtown an hour early, bought a pint of cider and worked in the Green Room until my friends arrived.

We hung out together for three hours. I'm especially fond of Denise and Mat, ( Read more... )

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Barbara Campbell has asked me to submit another short story for 1001 Nights Cast, and it's scheduled to be read tomorrow. She has returned to Sydney so the timing has changed. It will be broadcast at 18:11 Sydney time, which translates to 4:11 Toronto time (ESDT), so I won't get to hear it. I'm posting this in case anyone else is awake at that ( Read more... )

A Google alert on my name turned up this article today: Managing daily distractions: observe and reflect, by Steve Brunkhorst. It quotes my February 2000 article on Suite101, Develop your observation skills. By failing to identify the source this violates Suite101's copyright rules, but I no longer have a contract with Suite101 and don't see how ( Read more... )

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