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My Big List of Books

October 5, 2011 By 5 Comments
My Sisters Blue Eyes by Jacques Poulin

I started doing this thing. Many years ago I started writing down every book I read. This was driven by: My passionate love of lists. A belief that a really long list of books I had some relation to would make me look cool. A (relatively reasonable) fear that over time I would forget what [...]

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Life As A Human Article: Welcome to My Brain

March 21, 2010 By 1 Comment

I am very impressionable. Seriously. My subconscious is a sponge. A super porous, extra absorbent sponge. If my brain were toilet paper, it would be Charmin Ultra. Actually, that’s a good analogy, considering the amount of crap my brain soaks up. When I expose myself to a certain kind of media for extended periods of [...]

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Life As A Human Article: Canada Reads. Do You?

March 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In this mad world of technological gadgetry and sci-fi wonderment, I found myself falling head over heels for that old, simple broadcasting device. I’d always known it existed, but never really paid it much mind. Until a few years ago. I can’t tell you specifically what happened. Something just…clicked, in my head, and there was [...]

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My First Life As A Human Article!

February 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I’m very excited to say that my first article for the fabulous new website Life As A Human has been posted! Hurray! Below is an excerpt. I would be very much obliged if you would do me the honours of going to the LAAH site, reading it, and posting a comment to make me look [...]

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Adventures in House Sitting Part 2: Day Time Oddities

August 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Spending time alone in other people’s houses is weird. I used to do it quite a bit as a teenager for Ingrid. Not only did I babysit for her, I would clean her house a few times a week and look after the cats when she went away. I remember the first time she got [...]

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The final days in Quito

August 8, 2009 By 1 Comment

It feels like it was only five and a half weeks ago that I boarded the clipper and began my Ecuadorian journey. And yet here I am, five and a half weeks later, preparing to say goodbye to the fairer America continent and head on home. Where did the time go? I have to admit [...]

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Goodbye Galapagos. Hello Puerto Lopez.

August 5, 2009 By 2 Comments

Previously on Raggedy Threads: Angie, Nathan and I were all supposed to fly out of San Cristobal on the 31st at noon. Due to my sudden and violent distain for boats, I moved my ticket, and my ticket alone, to fly out of Baltra at 10:30am. The 31st was to be a long travel day. [...]

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Is this brilliant self discovery? Or just a typical life crisis?

June 15, 2009 By 3 Comments

I’m looking around my apartment – at all the boxes scattered on the floor, at the piles of weird crap that have made their way out of closets and are demanding to be sorted, at the bags of things that were once “possessions” and are now “garbage” – and I’m wondering what the hell I’m [...]

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