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word after word after word: December 2010
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Thursday, December 30, 2010. How the years add up. I'm thinking about math today (which I am no longer very good at, lack of practice) because I'm thinking about counting (which I can still do). Hmm, perhaps more accurately, I'm thinking about arithmetic, because I'm thinking about counting decades as we're coming up to a new one. Inside my head, ouch. Yeah, yeah, I hear you: What's truth? Interesting that the whole world fell into financial difficulties together too, isn't it? Of the year 10, before you...
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word after word after word: June 2011
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Thursday, June 23, 2011. Saw law student Chris Thompson. On Global News the other night. His is an independent view:. And yes, I suffer. The argument against the HST vs the old GST and PST is an emotional one. And I'll be the first to admit that my initial response to the Stop HST folks was a very strong feeling. That something was fishy. Definitely not a tax payer. The anti-HST discussion seems kind of similar to me. Don't expect me to pay! Burn the police car! Should pay. The success in this kind o...
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word after word after word: September 2011
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Not such a grind. I have been trying to 'do' the Grouse Grind. Twice a week, which is somewhat ironic, because while my behaviour seems kind of driven, when I get in among the trees (Douglas Fir and Western Cedar, most common on the North Shore mountains) it becomes very meditative, in a physical, sweaty sort of way. I do feel tremendously alive on the trail. My niece saw this one. Watching her, far from. The Grind, but a bit close. Hanging out in my brother's. On the weeke...
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word after word after word: October 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010. The 2010 Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival. Is now over. Fortunately I didn't miss the whole thing while I was hanging out in Ontario. I volunteer for the festival; most of what I do gets done ahead of time, but I made it home on Friday in time to wash my car and drive out to the airport to pick up David Mitchell. His latest title is The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. And I went to three other events besides Mitchell's, and listened to several writers w...
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word after word after word: May 2011
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Monday, May 30, 2011. Click on any of the pictures. For a better view. Some of the tools. This past week it's become a little bit more visible how that magic is created. My little neighbourhood has been turned temporarily upside down by an extremely complicated hydro project. The pipe bundle was capped, to pull it to the holding area. It made for a much longer walk than I'd planned (I didn't bother hopping on the shuttle) but also a lot more interesting one than I usually find around here. The pipe bundl...
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word after word after word: September 2010
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Yesterday a Superior Court justice in Ontario decriminalized prostitution. Or so most headlines put it. Actually prostitution was already legal. It's just that all the laws around it made it impossible to perform this legal act without breaking the law. Can you spell hypocrisy? The law, as it now precariously stands, does nothing to protect women in the sex trade. It forces them to operate in dark corners with no protection, and results in horrid, and sometimes spectacu...
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word after word after word: on the move
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011. I've moved my writing home; you can find me at shirleyrudolph.ca. Posted by Shirley Rudolph. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Vancouver, BC, Canada. View my complete profile.
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word after word after word: March 2011
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Sunday, March 27, 2011. What this day began. As they once were. My middle child is in another city, so a card in the mail and a phone call have to do for now, though I'm going to go visit (pester? I joke about it sometimes, about the decisions that led to having three children, that it wasn't rational, that I didn't know what I was doing. And actually that's true, I didn't. But for some reason my whole being wanted them, completely. Biology? So, nothing rational about it, and isn't that just fine? In Fai...
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word after word after word: April 2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010. In case you were wondering how things are going. Making plans for change is difficult when the plans require someone else to cooperate, and you don't even know who the someone is. My apartment has been for sale for a month now, and though there have been nibbles, no one has yet pulled out their chequebook and made an offer. Today I dropped the price (sigh. Hoping that someone will get the hint. This is not a grocery store; the posted price is a suggestion. Anyway, I'm more bothe...
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