This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...

From this month's edition of The Onion.

I have had people question my use of a walker. What can I say? Some people think it is up to them to police the use of mobility aids. Shaking my head over here.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Get more cartoons and other funny stuff in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/h...

#standforwolves #wolfconservation

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For the visual learners...

I can't breathe...

Just turned 70 & am familiar with 95% of what is on this list. Reading this felt like a walk down memory lane & reminded me just how much the world has changed. I do miss some things like the slower pace of life we once enjoyed. Even so I don't want to go back. www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo...

Only three weeks left to submit to the CNFC- @fiddlehd.bsky.social creative nonfiction contest with judge @dannyramadan.com. Time to start polishing! More info about submission guidelines here: creativenonfictioncollective.ca/cnf-contest/ #writingcontest

Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24. Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29. Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39. Trump to Fox: “I won youth by 36 points.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...

Working on my fourth book and doing research, rereading this book. "We are taught to assume health, and to view illnesses as a temporary breakdowns in the well-oiled machinery of the body. But illness has its own geography, its own laws and commandments." www.goodreads.com/book/show/74...

Year Seven of my #BCPoetry interview series with @readlocalbc.bsky.social is here! We're going big to open this year's series, with an interview with the one and only @rheatregebov.bsky.social. I hope you enjoy it.

Off the Shelf Reading Series Part 5 Featuring: CHRISTINE MCNAIR @christinemcnair.bsky.social + rob mclennan / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social February 28, 2025 : 7 pm SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver www.poetrycanada.org @poetryincanada.bsky.social

Hey with all of this “buy Canadian” as a response to the tariffs, can we also remember to READ CANADIAN. Canadian publishers will struggle to distribute books to the US, and Canadian authors struggle to get published there. American authors have a much easier time to be published here. Soooo….

Cecily Nicholson, author of the award-winning collections Wayside Sang, From the Poplars, and the forthcoming Crowd Source has been named the University of California Berkeley’s 2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry! Congratulations, Cecily!⁠ english.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...

I believe that what I focus on grows, but am finding it hard to look away as you know who takes over as president. I invite you to join me in spending time focusing on this photo. Every time I look at it I am reminded that I can return to the light by shifting my focus and it's okay to rest.

I am totally lost here and don't yet know how Blue Sky works but am grateful for an alternative as I participate in the Meta Blackout. I may leave Meta for good. I am afraid of what is coming... trying to stay with hope and checking in on you all.