Monthly Archives: May 2011
How To Not Know Who You Are Anymore
If like me, you tend to keep avid journals that document the high points, low (and lower) points, and thoughts and tangents about the people, events and feelings in your life, you may be able to look back on these … Continue reading
Writing Creative Non-Fiction
I’ve said this before, but I’ve never been able to get a great grasp on exactly ‘HOW’ to write creative non-fiction. I think I look at writing as something that exposes human emotion as a series of gestures that expose … Continue reading
What constitutes “beauty”?
For the first time ever in my life this weekend, (by someone who was not my mom or my best friend), I was called “beautiful” by someone; not “pretty”, not “hot”, not ”cute”, not “nice” (the latter the worst of those … Continue reading
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The largest group of discriminated individuals in North American society? Single people.
I’m going to end up, for the first time, getting my very own place this fall (or even earlier). It will be my own place that I can decorate however I want (minimalism-meets-tapestry with music motif on the walls); I … Continue reading
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Summer Soundtracks
Yesterday I was leafing through an old journal dating back to 2009 and there was a list of songs I had been obsessed with that summer. My first thought was amazement at how quickly time flies; I couldn’t believe that … Continue reading
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My mommy.
Sometimes when I’m really stressed about money and sad, my mom continuously reminded me that I am “her hero” because of strides I’ve made with my weight loss and all of the supposedly intimidating things I know how to do, … Continue reading
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Difficulties in writing creative non-fiction.
I’m having great difficulty with ending a piece of non-fiction I’m currently re-working. I guess the question with non-fiction is that of economy; at what point does the story end, and which of many details do you choose to include? … Continue reading
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From the Dead Story Files
It has been said that when one passes through Hell, one should “keep going.” At all costs, this is what one must do. There was a vibrancy to the idea of “Hell”; yet somehow, the Hell she was … Continue reading
Sam Roberts, Intervening, and Fan Violence at Shows.
This weekend, I had the great pleasure and privelege of seeing double-headers the Trews and the Sam Roberts band way up north in Lac La Biche, Alberta. The show was to inagurate the newly-built Bold Centre in the pretty Northern … Continue reading
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