Merry Christmas to everyone who will be celebrating it tomorrow! I hope it’s a joyful time for you and your loved ones. As someone who doesn’t observe this holiday anymore, it’s always interesting to talk about what I do when everything is shut down and see what other people have come up to pass the… Read More
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People Watching and the Holidays
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Like many other places, Toronto’s malls, subway system, and other public places are bustling with activity at this time of the year. No matter when someone might use or visit them in the month of December, there will be far more folks there than will be the case in January when the new year has… Read More
Why Do Library Holds Arrive Simultaneously (and Other Questions I Wish I Had Answers To)
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Lately, I’ve been taking a break from my normal interests like reading science fiction and exercising outdoors in order to try other stuff. One of the consequences of this has been that I haven’t come up with as many blog post ideas related to those topics as I’d normally be playing around with. I suspect… Read More
Armistice 100: Thoughts on World War I
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Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. In commemoration of this, I’m using today’s post to talk about what my ancestors were doing during that war and share a touching video that was filmed by a former soldier who returned to his old battlegrounds about a decade after he’d originally… Read More
Holiday Topics I Wish More People Would Blog About
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Can you believe it’s November already? It feels like January ended last month, and yet here we are moving quickly into the 2018 holiday season. As someone who doesn’t observe any winter holidays other than nodding slightly in the direction of the winter solstice since it means the days will soon be filled with more… Read More
4 Reasons Why You Should Attend Nuit Blanche
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Nuit Blanche is a free annual art festival that occurs overnight or at night. The first one happened in 1990 in Barcelona. As the tradition spread to other cities and countries, they used their own language’s words for White Night as the name for this event. Here in Toronto, Nuit Blanche generally occurs in late September… Read More
4 Things I Want to Accomplish This Autumn
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There’s something about the autumn season that makes me want to write out lists and accomplish things. Maybe it’s because of how much I generally looked forward to school beginning again when I was a student. A blank notebook can hold an endless number of possibilities. Several months from now they’ll be full of lecture… Read More
Not Everything Deserves a Response
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There have been references to the argumentative nature of the Internet for as long as I’ve been aware of such a thing, much less an active participant in it. Without giving away my age, I was around back when people got into never-ending arguments on message boards about topics that ranged from the serious to… Read More
4 Things That Inspire Me to Buy a Book
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This post was written as a response to Candy Korman’s What Inspires You to Buy a Book? If any of my readers decide to write their own responses, I’ll edit this to include a link to your post. Raise your hand if you sometimes have no idea what to read next! I know I have this… Read More
What Should I Write About Next?
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Once or twice a year I like to check in with my readers. What fitness, mindfulness/meditation, and scifi/fantasy topics would you like to see me blog about here? I haven’t been writing many meditation posts over the last several months because, frankly, my foray into unguided mediation hasn’t been going well. Even guided meditation has… Read More
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