How to decorate (for Dead Housekeeping)
FLASH MEMOIR | How to decorate. She never shies from an overblown chintz, an acid green, lattice over leaves on the lanai. Too much, she says, is often just right. “Take a page ...
Clair Huxtable is the best
RETRO TV | Clair Huxtable is the best. She’s the TV mom who taught me the most. Our faves are problematic. I know that, but it’s been a hard pill to swallow. Re-examining my love for ...
Rewatching My So-Called Life (was actually really hard)
MY SO-CALLED MEMORIES | In rewatches begin responsibilities? Maybe. Regardless, rewatching My So-Called Life gutted me. There was just something about My So-Called Life (MSCL). After its premiere ...
August and Everything After (a Counting Crows relisten)
MUSIC & MEMORY | Revisiting “August and Everything After”. I first heard Counting Crows on the radio in the spring of 1994. I was wearing one of my Dad’s oversized burgundy dress ...
In defense of stuff (or KonMari sucks)
LIVING | Confession: I have never – not once – come across a thrift store, yard sale, flea market, or so-called “junk” pile that didn’t contain at least one thing I’ve ...
Three types of millennials I’d love to stab (jk, jk)
OPINION | I hate millennials. Not all millennials, just those I’ve had the misfortune to know. I’m only half kidding when I say I hate millenials. (Three quarters kidding? 10 percent ...
Nailed it! My life in Pinterest fails
LIVING | Listen, perfection is overrated. When it comes to decorating, homemaking, and the domestic arts, I make a lot of mistakes. This is awkward because as a semi-hermit with ...
This is how fat I am
BODY POLITICS | What’s the first thing you noticed? This is how fat I am. Or rather, this is how fat I was three years ago, on my wedding day. I’ve been both significantly smaller and ...
Vancouver Fringe Fest Reviews, ’05
THEATRE | Vancouver Fringe Fest serves up winners and losers at every level. Expect high-brow, low-brow offerings, and everything in between at the 2005 Vancouver Fringe Fest. Here are just a few ...
Cannibal! The Musical at Vancouver Fringe
THEATRE | Trey Parker’s insane offering, Cannibal! The Musical arrives at Vancouver’s Fringe Festival. Cannibal! The Musical doesn’t need any help to sell out a Fringe Fest venue. ...
Emotional infidelity: cheating of the mind
CULTURE | Could you be cheating and not even know it? Is emotional infidelity a real thing? Experts say emotional infidelity is real, but word on the street is divided. People can’t even agree on ...
Sparkle Bunny at the Vancouver Fringe
THEATRE | Vancouver Fringe Fest offers up Sara Bynoe’s Sparkle Bunny: The Last Raver Dancing Sigh. Rave culture was fun. And Sarah Bynoe’s one woman Fringe Fest show, Sparkle Bunny: The ...