Vancouver

Vancouver Police Museum

January 6, 2011

Let’s just face it. Canadians are boring. Really boring. Right? Well, not so fast. You can take your boring and shove it, my friend. Look what the cops have confiscated from Vancouver’s collective pockets. Nail-studded baseball bat: Various sharp things: Even sharper things: Are you picking up what I’m putting down? OK, OK. On behalf [...]

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Totems, Tools & Everything Else: The UBC Museum of Anthropology

December 28, 2010

My family has lived in Vancouver for about seven years now (God, really?) and inexplicably we’ve never been to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology. I have no excuse. It’s famous. It’s beautiful. It’s close by. Frankly, this is pretty typical. I’ve moved around a lot in my life, and I always forget to explore my own [...]

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T&T Supermarket

November 27, 2010

Yesterday Scout and I stopped by T&T Supermarket in downtown Vancouver (below the Stadium Sky Train station). It’s Asian and carries everything from bags of chicken feet to lychee juice to dozens of kinds of fresh noodles. Whenever I get antsy and freak out about having lived in one place too long (which is, oh, [...]

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NaNoWriMo Weekend 1: Is This Thing Over Yet?

November 7, 2010

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Oh…hello. I’m so totally sick of this whole thing. Not sick enough to quit, mind you; just enough to gripe and whine. Scout and I have both been writing on and off over the weekend. My novel is like the early days of the Gulf oil spill; it’s spreading all over the place and [...]

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Mehndi – Sparkly or Straight?

October 16, 2010

Glitter mehndi??? How long has this been going on? Scout had this done over the summer at the county fair in Tillamook, Oregon. Here’s what went down. Immediately after entering the fairground, we came across a mehndi booth with no queue. My mehndi-loving daughter’s eyes bugged out, and she made a beeline for the tent. [...]

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Bahn Mi or Bust

August 20, 2010

Today Scout and I drove off to buy a new homeschool globe, but (and this is typical) within a few minutes of not finding the map-and-globe store, we scraped that idea and decided to hunt down some Vietnamese subs instead. Hmmm, where to go, where to go. At first we drove around aimlessly, but soon [...]

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