Hello friends. It sure has been a while. My inherited, half mine, mostly not mine, elderly, ancient husky German shepherd mix is growing a brain tumour. He began having seizures back on Thanksgiving weekend, he was fine-ish for a month, then Remembrance day he had another seizure, and that’s
Sometimes when the weather is not behaving, when it is very much you are living in interesting and more interesting-er times, and it becomes a whole lot to not be jaded, cynical, or nihilistic even, I remember how improbable it is that I exist in this specific moment in time.
In the madness and slog of this past week I had a little revelation. What if there is enough time? I’ve been fiercely devoted to the concepts of there is not enough time, time is running out, and the worst thing you can do is waste time for a
Welcome to October mes amies! It seasonably appropriate weather (so far) where I am living and the transformation between seasons is spellbinding. It feels like all of the elms were green just yesterday but overnight they’ve donned their most yellow leaves to welcome Fall. The grass is slowly becoming
Hello friends! These past weeks have been a lot. So much so that it’s still kinda kicking my ass and this is being released as a Monday newsletter. I hope wherever you are it’s seasonally appropriate weather, with sweaters and comfy socks, warm drinks and keen insights, and
Tansi nitotemwak! It is cool! It is rainy! It is beautiful after too long of scorching temperatures. This is perfect soup, slow cooker meal weather, and I am adoring every moment of it. I can wear a flannel to go outside and not die from the heat! I can curl
Hey friends! It’s a polarizing time of year, September! Is September your new year, new start, or do you adhere to a New Years, middle of winter is where the year rolls over? Also are you a pumpkin spice girlie or do you throw down for apple cider season?
Tansi nitotemwak! Mercury is in the garburator again! Last week I finished the Catch Up and then somehow deleted it completely. There's no record of it, it's not in the back up location, it's not in a Cloud, it's not in any
Hello friends! This has been the longest streak we've gone without a Catch Up. July was just a whole lot between multiple over 30 degree days and the summer semester grind, I haven't had much left in the tank for marginalia musing. It's not
Hello Friends! I hope you're doing well. I hope there's no tropical storms heading your way, no heatwaves just starting, and that it isn't grossly humid (unless you like being moist all of the time). If there are I hope you have good friends,
Tansi nitotemwak! It's canada day here, so that means technically this is still a weekend Catch Up. And yeah. Colonial freedom holidays are weird because it's like cool this place I live in just replicated a different colonial order, which is still terrible to many oppressed
Hello friends! Sorry about missing last week's Catch Up! The horrors of my lit seminar continue and I decided that I really need to work on not working on the weekends for it. So from now until September, the Catch Up is going to come to you, piping
Hello friends! I hope June has been gentle with you so far. This week for me has been one of death and rebirth broadly, if my life were a novel or some kind of creative non-fiction piece. On a rainy, windy Monday I met one of my last ‘disappeared’ cousins
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Letter writing is a lost art. There is something so intimate about dedicating part of your day to draft the perfect correspondence to someone,
Greetings and salutations friends! How is it June already? It felt like it was just January a few moments ago. I swear time isn't real sometimes. This month is a dual month: gay wrath and Indigenous history month, which makes for an angry, messy and hopeful time (I
Has it been raining a lot where you are?-It's been raining here more than it did last year and it's beautiful. We didn't get snow until what felt like late December, so everything was that post apocalyptic sepia and grey. Now it'
Tansi nitotemwak! It’s been awhile. Between trying to get over the forever plague my kids brought me and the Spring/Summer semester start, I haven’t been particularly good at keeping the Catch Up going. I’ve been trying to rest so that I can feel more human-ish soon.
Since the last time we've caught up, things have been kinda weird. Time has been slightly more surreal than usual and whole bunch of bad bills have been introduced into my province's legislature. Along with that, a few communities were on evacuation alert due to forest
This week's catch up is incredibly late. Some life stuff came up, and I ran out of time. Alestorm was flipping amazing, significantly better than I thought it would be at all, and was really invigorating. It's really cool to see bands in mid sized venues.
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April is here. A cold, kinda rainy, kinda snowy April. This month has two concert dates that I'm looking forward to: Alestorm and Cannibal Corpse/Amon Amarth. I saw Amon Amarth for the first time last August with Ghost, and I don't think I've
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Fake Spring is going pretty hard right now! It's been a roller coaster of snow, snow rain, rain, and just the awkward not warm enough to go without a jacket while being not cold enough to exclude shorts yet. Our weird Winter felt warmer than whatever is happening
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Hey friends! I've been feeling under the weather this week (and it's birthday week for me too on top of things), so I haven't been doing a whole lot. Sunday was +15C (59F) it was beautifully muddy and smelled like fake Spring. Then fake
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Welcome to the first Friday Catch Up where I talk about what I've been up to, pet updates, and what I've been working on. This is a learning experience, and I'm glad you're on this journey with me.