Vegan thanksgiving, plus my enormous belly

I am visiting my parents for Canadian Thanksgiving, and thus not likely to write much for the next few days. So go check out Kitchen Operas, a blog run by Lindsay, a fellow singer and a very good cook. She’s posted some great vegan recipes this month, including some vegan Thanksgiving recipes. Also here is [...]

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Famous face

For a brief period in, I think, Grade 4, I was made fun of by my peers for having a big nose. I don’t recall it bothering me too much, because even then I had to admit that my nose was on the large side. Fortunately I grew into it, and my nose is now [...]

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The pack

From Knit your own Dog: The legs on the pug turned out very floppy – if I were making him to stand up, I’d stick pipe cleaners in the legs. Since I made these for a mobile for the baby I’m leaving it like it is. When I construct the mobile I will most certainly [...]

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Why I won’t be putting up posters this week

I put up about 150 last week and got one new student, which is an excellent ratio. I was planning on doing the same this week, but: You know, weather gods, if I had wanted to live in Vancouver or Scotland, I would have moved there. Sheesh.

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Gus

We’ve been on a clean living and cleanliness kick lately, so this morning I made the bed right after getting up. I know what you’re thinking, smug clean-freak people – “Why is that unusual? I do that every morning, right before I exercise for 30 minutes and sweep my already spotless floor!”  Well, lah-di-dah. It’s [...]

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How to: Make vegan tri-colour bagels (or Hound Rounds)

Back in…January? November?…Sometime before now, I posted my basic bagel recipe. To my surprise, Wendy Matheson of Herding Cats in Hammond River made them and liked them! So for Wendy and other vegan bagel enthusiasts, I give you another bagel recipe: Hound Rounds.

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Why the bed never gets made around here.

That is all.

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Signs of the apocalypse

- ROB FORD IS MAYOR. Toronto, WTF? Seriously, Richard Nixon’s corpse would make a better mayor than this buffoon. – Someone stole my credit card number! And bought gas!  The bank just called to ask, “Hey, did you buy gas this morning and yesterday?” I didn’t, because I don’t have a car.  Bastards. – Sadly, [...]

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Daily Basset, Oct 24, 2010: Welcome Home Party Edition

Madeline and Gus throw Ben a welcome home party. Or I wake Gus up at 10:30 to put a plastic lei on him and take his picture. I upload, you decide. In other news…the conference yesterday was great.  I saw some excellent talks and presentations and did some quality schmoozing.  People really liked our show.  [...]

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Daily Basset, Oct 21 & 22, 2010: Bassets phone home

Yesterday’s Daily Basset pictures were not what I would call spectacular.  I tried to catch both playing/being bad: Today Gus fell asleep next to my cellphone.  When I went to get the camera to take a picture of the resulting cuteness, he woke up and followed me, so I had to stage these: Aw.  Anyway, [...]

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