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Apathy, even abuse. Twelve more days.
Twelve more days in this dress. Twelve days until the end. Until the not end. Twelve days until the beginning. Until the Good Night, and Good Luck. Until the Good Morning, Vietnam! Until the stop. Until the go. Until the go where? Until the what now? Until the next.If you write “until” enough tim...
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Twelve more days in this dress. Twelve days until the end. Until the not end. Twelve days until the beginning. Until the Good Night, and Good Luck. Until the Good Morning, Vietnam! Until the stop. Until the go. Until the go where? Until the what now? Until the next.If you write “until” enough tim...
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Readings
I’ve been doing readings as long as I’ve known how to read.This photo was taken 30 years ago. I was in Grade 2 French Immersion. My teacher was Mme Donovan. Those must be her sunglasses on the desk. I wish wish wish I could see the title of the book. No doubt something from the Wapiti Regional Li...
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I’ve been doing readings as long as I’ve known how to read.This photo was taken 30 years ago. I was in Grade 2 French Immersion. My teacher was Mme Donovan. Those must be her sunglasses on the desk. I wish wish wish I could see the title of the book. No doubt something from the Wapiti Regional Li...
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Love from Ottawa
♩ ♪ ♫ Where do I beginTo tell the story of how great a gift can be?A stranger’s act of pure, sweet generosityThe simple truth about the rings she mailed to meWhere do I start?Like, seriously, I barely know where to begin.At the beginning, I guess.On May 12, I got an email via my website in respon...
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♩ ♪ ♫ Where do I beginTo tell the story of how great a gift can be?A stranger’s act of pure, sweet generosityThe simple truth about the rings she mailed to meWhere do I start?Like, seriously, I barely know where to begin.At the beginning, I guess.On May 12, I got an email via my website in respon...
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What sweater in yonder mountain ash hangs?
I’ve been asking people for ideas on what I should do with Laverne when this one-dress-for-one-year project is over.Suggestions so far:-burn it-frame it and hang it as a piece of art in my house-bronze it-laminate it-donate it to the U of A’s Human Ecology Department-keep it and wear it every few...
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I’ve been asking people for ideas on what I should do with Laverne when this one-dress-for-one-year project is over.Suggestions so far:-burn it-frame it and hang it as a piece of art in my house-bronze it-laminate it-donate it to the U of A’s Human Ecology Department-keep it and wear it every few...
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If I have to wear this dumb dress one more time...
A totally pointless subject line, because I do have to wear this dress one more time. Actually, thirty-three more times, including today.Which really bites, because I’ve officially had it with Laverne.It’s all I can do to put her on every morning. She’s faded (again). She’s got these chalky white...
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A totally pointless subject line, because I do have to wear this dress one more time. Actually, thirty-three more times, including today.Which really bites, because I’ve officially had it with Laverne.It’s all I can do to put her on every morning. She’s faded (again). She’s got these chalky white...
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Invisible friend
Sometimes, I imagine you are walking next to me.In my mind, I talk to you. I know the way, but you don’t. You’ve never been this way before. So I tell you how we’re going to get there. It’s somewhere I go all the time - my house, a store, a cafe - but it’s our first time going together. I go ...
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Sometimes, I imagine you are walking next to me.In my mind, I talk to you. I know the way, but you don’t. You’ve never been this way before. So I tell you how we’re going to get there. It’s somewhere I go all the time - my house, a store, a cafe - but it’s our first time going together. I go ...
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Fill ‘er up
Laverne isn’t my first uniform.My first uniform was a pair of scarlet coveralls. They had a saggy crotch, short sleeves, and a handy breast pocket for my tire pressure gauge.I wore this flashy getup for my first job pumping gas on Nipawin’s main drag. I got into this line of work at age 15 and di...
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Laverne isn’t my first uniform.My first uniform was a pair of scarlet coveralls. They had a saggy crotch, short sleeves, and a handy breast pocket for my tire pressure gauge.I wore this flashy getup for my first job pumping gas on Nipawin’s main drag. I got into this line of work at age 15 and di...
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My son got a fish for his fifth birthday. He promptly named it...
My son got a fish for his fifth birthday. He promptly named it Fred. Why Fred, I asked him. He couldn’t say. (My theory: Flintstone vitamins.) Since then (September!), I find myself humming a particular tune whenever I feed the fish…(Side note: I desperately wanted to play Marty in the high schoo...
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My son got a fish for his fifth birthday. He promptly named it Fred. Why Fred, I asked him. He couldn’t say. (My theory: Flintstone vitamins.) Since then (September!), I find myself humming a particular tune whenever I feed the fish…(Side note: I desperately wanted to play Marty in the high schoo...
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Laverne visits the Blue Lagoon
We soaked, we steamed, we floated and paddled. We gooped our faces in white silica muck. We got drinks from the lagoon-implanted bar, took pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures, felt all our skin problems and ailments of the body and spirit wash away in the magical cerulean...
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We soaked, we steamed, we floated and paddled. We gooped our faces in white silica muck. We got drinks from the lagoon-implanted bar, took pictures of people taking pictures of people taking pictures, felt all our skin problems and ailments of the body and spirit wash away in the magical cerulean...
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The mummy fiasco
The shame spits up when I think of Halloween 1986. It’s a thick, black sort of feeling, a little like the bubbling crude in The Beverly Hillbillies.I was nine years old that year. I decided I’d be a mummy (presumably Egyptian). God knows what inspired this choice. It was my first foray into the s...
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The shame spits up when I think of Halloween 1986. It’s a thick, black sort of feeling, a little like the bubbling crude in The Beverly Hillbillies.I was nine years old that year. I decided I’d be a mummy (presumably Egyptian). God knows what inspired this choice. It was my first foray into the s...
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What I babbled about at brunch
Yesterday I attended Litfest’s Brunch of Writers at the Westin Hotel. Beloved former city councillor Michael Phair wandered about in a hot pink sweater pouring champagne for mimosas (and I’m kicking myself for not getting a picture). I sat at a table with Canlit editing & publishing legend ...
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Yesterday I attended Litfest’s Brunch of Writers at the Westin Hotel. Beloved former city councillor Michael Phair wandered about in a hot pink sweater pouring champagne for mimosas (and I’m kicking myself for not getting a picture). I sat at a table with Canlit editing & publishing legend ...
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Around the dress in 80 days
Autumn. Took this photo of my street; those leaves have all fallen now. My time with Laverne is drawing to a close.Just 80 days remain in my mission to wear the same dress for a full calendar year. In some ways, the time has gone incredibly quickly. At times not. Let it be said, which I’m pleased...
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Autumn. Took this photo of my street; those leaves have all fallen now. My time with Laverne is drawing to a close.Just 80 days remain in my mission to wear the same dress for a full calendar year. In some ways, the time has gone incredibly quickly. At times not. Let it be said, which I’m pleased...
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Wrote this song a while back, when my hair was darker and...
Wrote this song a while back, when my hair was darker and longer, and life’s shadows less so.I’ve since purchased a proper grownup ukulele, but sometimes I miss my tinny scarlet friend.Another post shortly. x
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Wrote this song a while back, when my hair was darker and longer, and life’s shadows less so.I’ve since purchased a proper grownup ukulele, but sometimes I miss my tinny scarlet friend.Another post shortly. x
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Grow UP
This summer, I finally made the trip to Waterton National Park, a place I’ve been meaning to visit since moving to Alberta more than a decade ago.In my mind’s eye, I could already see the place. Craggy slate mountains, stunning and austere. That Swiss-chalet hotel with the gables and green roof r...
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This summer, I finally made the trip to Waterton National Park, a place I’ve been meaning to visit since moving to Alberta more than a decade ago.In my mind’s eye, I could already see the place. Craggy slate mountains, stunning and austere. That Swiss-chalet hotel with the gables and green roof r...
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Cosmic yolk
It’s not a super moon, but the turmeric-coloured egg yolk I refrigerated overnight definitely has a celestial-body aesthetic about it, don’t you think? Though I have to say, I’m reminded more of something solar than lunar.I don’t have a dog anymore, so I’m not sure why I saved this yolk. My pet f...
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It’s not a super moon, but the turmeric-coloured egg yolk I refrigerated overnight definitely has a celestial-body aesthetic about it, don’t you think? Though I have to say, I’m reminded more of something solar than lunar.I don’t have a dog anymore, so I’m not sure why I saved this yolk. My pet f...
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