February 2011
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January 2011
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Pumpkin?
I was reading this article about Walmart’s planned expansion in Quebec. ( It can’t all be music and snowflakes ) when I was hit with this sentence.
Other foods, like pumpkin-based products, are less popular in Quebec than they are elsewhere in Canada.
What pumpkin-based products? I can think of pie, cookies, bread and soup, but honestly, I’ve lived in other parts of Canada...
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“Baudelaire sensed the increased intimacy of a house when it is besieged by...”
– So Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space as another three inches of snow falls on Cambridge. (via carpentrix)
and a -27C night makes intimacy a means of survival.
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ARRGH!
Most of this post* makes me want to scream, but this snippet really threw me-
A great time saver is to make steel cut oatmeal, put it in a ceramic bread loaf pan and slice it each morning, add a drizzle of maple syrup, milk and 45 seconds in the microwave—healthy breakfast in seconds and I can make it last over 3 - 4 days!
WTF did she do to her porridge to make it sliceable? And who would...
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“A friend who accompanied me gave me stern instructions: “We have to decide which...”
– The Coats of Edward Gorey by A.N. Devers in the Paris Review
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A LIST
(image: dreampens.co.uk)
I don’t make New Year resolutions. Correction. I made one when I was fifteen or sixteen - not to make resolutions on December 31st. I’ve stuck to it. But over the past few days I’ve been fighting the urge to write down all the things I want to do in the coming months,...
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