Oh, man. Where did the month go? Never mind that, where did the year go? All the years?! Two years ago this month I quit my job. Some things have changed in that time – I’m getting more poetry acceptance letters, I’m slowly starting to creep out of my writing cave and meet other people who write […]
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The tomatoes are already starting to come in, and they look adorable. Many other plants have flowered, and I took a few pictures, but haven’t had a chance to put them up, and now look: fruit. Already. Who knew? The blueberries are still very green, and while I’ve eaten most of the strawberries, two seem to be
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Grouplove, “Tongue Tied“ I love how bouncy this song is. My legs refuse to remain still.
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Last week I shared a link to a new organization called Canadian Women in the Literary Arts, which I joined, and you may want to consider joining as well, female, male or other – it’s important for all of us. The Vancouver Sun has a great write up, check it out here. Also see this write up
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A varied month. 50. Twenty-Seventh City, by Jonathan Franzen (Picador , 1988, 2001) To backtrack, I really liked The Corrections, and thought The Discomfort Zone was pretty good, but I felt like I kept waiting for Twenty-Seventh City to make sense. At its most bare, it’s the story of a conspiracy by a group of people to destroy
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Tons of activity in my garden this week. It’s very exciting, though I think I may have over planted again. The zucchini in the bottom left hand corner is getting big. It’s starting to over run my asparagus, and it’s only been a couple of weeks. Not sure how to fix that. I finally got around to
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