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2009

December

• Rest in Peace, Margaret

October

• Thanksgiving dinner

September

• The meaning of friendship

August

• Camping

• Blueberries

July

• Fluevogs

• Extras in the film of life

• Talking to Walter Cronkite

• The divorce announcement

• Spammers infesting my blog

April

• Folly of fluffy

• Walk it off, walk it off

• Some things don’t translate across gender lines

• How can it be Thursday already?

• Back on track

• Birthdays do count

• Fighting demons

• IF you don’t succeed, try, try again?

• Not eating is as bad as eating

• Soy sauce is evil

• My long view on weight loss: the food diaries

March

• Water’s Edge Music Festival

• Becoming a Kiva donor

January

• Can electrical sockets be useful and beautiful?

• Vancouver snow situation and the 2010 Winter Olympics

• Who knew soy could be so bad for you?

2008

December

• Update on family news

• One sexy automobile

November

• Spam (the meat product) vs real meat

August

• All the reasons not to deal with Wells Fargo Financial

• Tourists beware BC Ferries

• Why Hasbro doesn’t deserve customer loyalty

• I may never travel to the U.S.A. with my laptop again

July

• Conflicted over the iPhone

• Pride and the nature of community

June

• Heading off to what used to be home

• Self-censorship in blogging

March

• Goodbye to some memorable books

• Custom songs makes for light-hearted gifts

• Fitness quest update

• Redeeming social value of Will and Grace

• Texting and driving

• Social networking reverting to a global local village model?

• International Women’s Day

• Happiness is genetic - go figure

• Can’t afford to be sidelined for a day

February

• Say No to Bullying day

• The descent of Canadian media: when shoes trump budget announcements

• The year of Me

• Schlepping naches

January

• St. Louis, Missouri

2007

October

• Trikke, a treat

August

• Foreign film weekend

• About that disability

July

• After the u-pick berry fest

June

• The Starbucks Experience, by Joseph Michelli

• Berry picking season is here again

• What on earth is going on at VanCity?

• Blowing My Cover, by Lindsay Moran

• Talking to people on the SkyTrain

• The Book of Salt, by Monique Truong

• Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man, by Charles Barkley

• Dance recitals and high school graduations

• Finding George Orwell in Burma, by Emma Larkin

• Night, by Elie Wiesel

• Will Telus ever “get it”??

• I love Bollywood movies

• Bad customer service biggest blow to office productivity, part 2

• Bad customer service biggest blow to office productivity, part 1

May

• Peter Grogono gets President’s Award for Teaching Excellence

April

• Death Defying Acts in Havana

• Penn Masala and Facebook

• San Francisco: good and bad

• Side effects of being a business owner

March

• Another grandchild in the works

• An occasion to kvell

• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller

• Celebrating Holi

• And life goes on

• So small a gesture, so large an impact

January

• Attending theatre production yields alimentary treat

2006

December

• Communicating with cats

• The un-holidays

• Christmukah, West Coast style, part 2

• Christmukah, West Coast style, part 1

• Differences in communication styles

• A Conspiracy of Paper, by David Liss

• The Falls, by Joyce Carol Oates

• Obsan, by Joy Kogawa

• It’s not just the break-ins you’ve got to worry about

• Doug and Bob: Look what you started

• More on avoiding Christmas [music]

• Some companies just don’t get it when it comes to marketing

• Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, by Vincent Lam

November

• Restaurant policy ruins a dining customer experience

• Repressiveness taken to a whole new level

• Avoiding Christmas, Part 2

• Avoiding Christmas

• Progressive versus crazy-making

• Margaret Dickenson as a usability professional