So J and I have pulled back the reins on our spending after a few months of losing some control with food costs. This has led to some creative Christmas gift maneuvering (which I am excited to tell you about after everyone gets their gifts!). Financial organization and management, or the taboo word […]
When I went on my trip to Newfoundland in the summer, I saw my first iceberg - or at least, the one most up-close and personal. (And because I’m anal, I need to point out that I am not okay with the blue lines that show up around these linked images in internet explorer. […]
An important announcement from Canadian media - a heralding, a warning, a portent -
The weather phenomenon La Nina will bring Canada the coldest winter in nearly 15 years, Environment Canada warned Friday.
Environment Canada’s temperature forecast shows the majority of the country will experience a “temperature anomaly” of below-normal temperatures through the months of December, […]
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Putting things in perspective - Alex Wooley’s Office Job/Battery Hens
“A response to the similarities between many office working conditions
and battery farmed hens.”
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I’ve just started listening to a new podcast, the Dawn and Drew Show. This podcast embodies for me those moments you experience with good friends, possibly slightly inebriated, in the middle of […]
Well well, what an interesting month. As a new blogger, I thought that Nablopomo would be the perfect opportunity to really tone those blogging muscles and teach me a thing or two about how to blog effectively. I think that my writing style and comfort level on the blog will continue to evolve. […]
My Blue Heaven
2006
Oil on canvas
42″ in diameter
mother and child
2007
oil on wood
12″ x 8″
Images from Elsie Kagan’s official site.
I just read today that sitting down - just the mere act of sitting on your bum - causes the enzymes that burn fat to actually shut down. Breaking research that the way our society keeps us sitting down is contributing to the obesity crisis. So not only are we not exercising, but […]
I’m going for full disclosure here - the shame of outing my television habit is likely a necessary component of finally breaking it. Hi everyone, my name is Valerie. I am an engimatic, intelligent, and well-spoken woman with plenty of interests and talents. Yes, I am addicted to television.
Throughout my childhood, adolescence […]
I am entranced by von Holleben’s photographs. Taking children as his subjects, he images them in frozen scenes in which they seemingly act out their fantasies, in the seeming motions of play, humour, imagination. (discovered on Superhero Journal and all images from von Holleben’s official site)
And yet, something tugs in these photographs. […]
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