…but do you know where your drink is?
The Vancouver Police have just issued a warning for people in the club scene to be more vigilant not only about their drinks, but their drugs, and, yes, their bodies, too.
This is important for anyone of clubbing age to read, regardless of your town, and for parents to [...]

I don’t get enough chances to rant around here. :) I love a rant! I was all excited when my all-too-often ignored email address told me there was a new comment a minute ago, and I noticed this fucking right-wing rant about “decency” and “it’s not too late” to “teach your children” about “morals” in [...]

So, at the end of August, I had a very, very depressing physical with my doctor. I’d gained back some 15 lbs of the 45 or so I’ve lost in the last couple years. I was wheezing, had been sick for a few weeks and would get sick again three weeks later, too, and just [...]

I began my morning with watching a movie called Shooting Dogs, the antithesis of Hotel Rwanda. Instead of surving, 2,500 Rwandans who sought safety at a school/UN base met their death in slaughter when the UN troops stationed there were pulled back.
The film ended with stills of people working on the project, from third director [...]

I’m waiting on a storm. A storm named LingLing, to be exact. You gotta love typhoons… they’re always given such nifty Asian names. We here in Vancouver don’t call this just a “storm”, no, this is the much dreaded Pineapple Express. A lovely parting gift sent our way by the fabulous Hawaiian Islands. Days and [...]

I’m a busy little beaver, as the Canadian saying goes. Winter’s pretty much staked its claim on these parts with the first of the Northern winds blowing through this town this eve, and my bedroom’s far too cold for a girl who’s about to crawl under the covers, so I’ve been creating some diversions.
I’ve had [...]

As part of my bigger, bolder, betterer movement in my own life, I’ve signed up as a volunteer at our local Writer’s Festival, and tonight went to check out the volunteer orientation. Had a blast. It’s part of my meet-new-people plan that really is just about meeting new people, and not about getting laid… but [...]

I know scientific studies are funded so we can have “evidence” of things, but, really, how obvious does something have to be for that study’s evidence to be a waste of everyone’s time and money?
Case in point: A study in Great Britain has now deduced that unhappy marriages (or relationships) are bad for your heart.
Oh, [...]

These are the kinds of weekends one has to grow accustomed to when one lives in a rainforest. Ah, Vancouver. The world outside my windows is being soaked to the core by an omnipresent drizzle. There’s no definition in the skies overhead — it’s just a world of soft grey from the clouds on down.
It’s [...]

I try not to do the whole rah-rah look-at-me I’m-an-activist blogging thing. There are those far better cut out to such work than me, so why crash their party, right?
But on the subject of Burma, no one should remain quiet.
It is despicable, heinous, and a crime against all of humanity what the government of Myanmar [...]

After a week of being pretty badly hit by the cold making its way around Vancouver, I kept much more to myself on my birthday weekend than I’d planned to. The weather has been lousy, and I realized I wasn’t as flush with cash as I was hoping, so I figured I’d keep it simple.
Case [...]