It’s been a long year for this lil’ blog o’ mine, and a long year for democracy in Canada. Considering we’ve now passed the half-way mark between the 2011 federal election and the next one, I wanted to take stock, in a general sense, of what’s been going on around me while I was busy … Continue reading Canadian Democracy Round-Up Fall 2013
You all know the story: Intelligent Boy-Man has talent but no direction. Intelligent Boy-Man has either no relationship or meaningless ones. Along comes the Quirky Girl. She’s Different. She’s an Individual (you can tell by her blunt bangs/blunt manners). She’s Damaged, but that’s okay, because she Just Might Be What His Life Needs, either indefinitely … Continue reading Ruby Sparks: A Refreshingly Quirky Film about the Cliche “Quirky Girl”
When I was 20 and in theatre school, I made the big decision to Get Braces. My teeth were okay but they weren’t exactly straight, and a particular molar, leaning sideways and rotated almost 90 degrees, was giving my dentist pause. I was also beginning to realize that if I wanted any chance as an … Continue reading Tales of a 20-something Twinkle Teeth
This morning Canadians on Facebook and Twitter have been calling on us to remember the 14 female engineering students whose lives were taken by a gunman on December 6, 1989, and to pledge that violence against women will stop. I was particularly taken with this address made by NDP MP Megan Leslie in 2008 and … Continue reading It’s December 6, and casual misogyny abounds
The annual Wreck Beach Skinny Dip was held this year on Saturday, August 4. The Wreck Beach Preservation Society (WBPS) really picked a great day this for it (after a bit of a false start July 21, a Saturday which began quite cloudy). The air was warm, the sand was hot, the sun was bright, … Continue reading Strip Down and Be Counted: Wreck Beach Skinny Dip 2012
[Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. I am not Delia, and TC is not Nathan. Nathan seems okay, but TC is much cooler. Here goes…] The Rat Race Maybe we should hire someone to clean the apartment. This is an idea Delia has while she stands at the bus stop, the only one in … Continue reading “The Rat Race” (Nifty Fiction)
On November 21, 2010, I moved into a sweet little nifty apartment in East Vancouver’s Hastings Sunrise area. I made the move for emotional and financial reasons and my snug little place welcomed me in a cozy embrace of mirrored closets perfect for impromtu vanity dance parties (with or without air guitar) and east-facing windows … Continue reading Moving out, moving in, moving on
Something that has really been getting my goat lately is the increasingly prevalent notion that we shouldn’t ever be sad, that sadness is somehow not a natural and normal state for people to be in sometimes. Whether it’s groups pushing for “the blues” to be classified as some kind of medical disorder (that we can … Continue reading Got the Blues Real Good: The Case for Being Sad (Sometimes)
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