I'm not very good at unconditionally loving things I make, and it dawned on me today that maybe this is the real reason why I'm so terrified of ever producing a child. Or maybe it's because I'm finally enjoying a little financial liberty and I'm too selfish to give that up just yet ( Read more... )

Australia's Herald Sun newspaper is reporting that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are moving to New Orleans. Excerpt ( Read more... )

The weekend before last, I wound up back on Halifax time. After weeping on and off at work on Friday, I sort of went online and stopped sleeping. I talked to lost friends, reporters, organizers, family. Finally, around 7am on Saturday, I collapsed on the bed for a nap. I'm pretty sure someone started convincing me in my sleep that if I could ( Read more... )

Many of you who know me/Jim who read this probably already know about our travel blog, but just in case some of you don't, that's really where I'll be posting more 'public' type remembrance stuff about Helen. Like badly digitized super 8 footage of her on a mission to charm a somewhat-curmudgeonly (but seemingly gooey on the inside) film lab owner ( Read more... )

Goodbye, so long... farewell for now ( Read more... )

Questions borrowed from Audra's lj ( Read more... )

Veering to the left (not the right) when meeting a pedestrian on the street ( Read more... )

Ulsan has many yarn shops. Most are tiny little closet-sized spaces, about 10x8, with sliding frosted glass doors. And most days, they're filled with older women (ajummas) sitting in a circle on the floor, crafting up a storm. Most of the spots I've seen had obviously settled into place many years ago. At first, I didn't even think they were ( Read more... )

It was the first time I was invited to join my female co-workers for a drink after a long day of teaching. This was significant to me because as the only female 'native English speaker' at my school, I'd been seriously lacking in female social contact. We hit a soju bar, ate some cham-chi jjigae (tuna stew, which is far tastier than it sounds), ( Read more... )