Archive for March, 2009
Interlude
As of today, my due date is exactly one month away.
Damn, that’s soon.
I say that, and yet there will be moments (more like minutes, or hours) each day where I forcefully wish the time away. I guess it’s a delicate balance between enjoying your last weeks of relative irresponsibility, and yet desperately looking forward [...]
On Rejection
I’ve received a lot of short story rejections lately.
This is not, however, a post about how my stories are being undeservedly shot down by markets left right and centre and how no one understands who I am as an artist and why don’t people realize how awesome my writing is blah blah blah.
All of the [...]
Outside my Literary Comfort Zone
Last night I headed out to the first l meeting of the book club at Words Worth Books, a cool little independent book store downtown Waterloo. I joined for a few reasons, one of which was I wanted to read some stuff that was outside my comfort zone.
The first book that we’ll be reading is [...]
Next, I’ll be churning butter while wearing an attractive bonnet.
A few months ago a friend gave us a simple recipe for baking your own bread - no fancy mixers or machines required. Yeast breads can have a mind of their own in terms of their needs and desires, but this recipe seems fairly foolproof. I’ve made it close to a dozen times at this point, [...]
Read More..>>At The Movies
I really, really want to see Watchmen. I’ve been excited about it ever since I saw the preview featuring that kickin’ Smashing Pumpkins song. It looks like a perfect tonic to all the cookie-cutter superhero movies we’ve all had to ingest in the last couple years.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t till it came out last week that [...]