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The Mindful Eater

2010-06-23T16:50:46Z

I created a video to audition for a cooking show on the new Oprah network. Please view my video here and feel free to vote for me

http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=16379&promo_id=1 The name of the show is The Mindful Eater More important than knowing how to cook and prepare food well is the ability to know how to enjoy food well. [...]

Don’t shoot, she’s my friend

2010-05-22T17:44:47Z

Barry Jakel recently read my book and composed the following poem about it.

I’m not sure who I’m talking to …. but this I know is true, I know you’re armed and dangerous and before you do Anything outrageous I just wanted you to know My friend Elen has a story, … another book to show

She’s a big fan [...]

Searching for my missing Fluevog sole mate

2010-05-17T19:02:23Z

It was a mystery to me for a long time. How could I be a shoe fanatic, live in Vancouver and not own a single pair of fluevog shoes? Fluevog is a local shoe designer that makes unique shoes for both men and women favoured by celebrities like Madonna. Fluevog shoes are creative and unique, they [...]

Story Telling: How I aquired my super powers

2010-05-11T15:29:38Z

I have been involved in a story telling gig taking place at the New Bohemian.

Here is my first story telling attempt

At first it was a challenge for me to tell a story without reading it from a piece of paper. Once I got used to the idea of memorization I found it freeing.

Flamenco brings utter joy into my life

2010-04-22T21:54:14Z

Like you mean it

2010-04-06T23:24:23Z

You say: I am sorry, I didn’t mean it. I was too busy at work. Distracted by daily concerns. Here are some flowers. A gift from the duty free shop.

Years go by: I am not as strong as a horse. I am not the rock of Gibraltar. Turns out, I am fragile like two bits of code cobbled together with a hockey API

So please in the future please please. Hurt [...]

The Purple Shoes

2010-03-26T18:24:59Z

After that, I stopped looking for shoes or noticing them and stopped my frenzied visits to the mall. I satisfied myself with the idea that my orange dance shoes gave me a crazy thrill and my red street shoes gave me a small doze to help me get through the rest of the time when [...]

Blog Port

2010-03-22T16:34:57Z

This blog is being ported from Blogger to WordPress. I have wanted to do this for a long time but kept procrastinating worried that it would be too much work. Then Blogger announced that they wouldn’t support ftp publishing anymore and so I had no choice but to take the plunge, since I want to maintain [...]

Iraqi Elections in Vancouver

2010-03-22T17:34:38Z

I will gladly show my stretch marks to anybody. They don’t look pretty, but they symbolize an honoured passage into a magical kingdom that can only be entered the hard way.

As I write this I have a purple index finger. My finger looks like it has been tortured or perhaps suffocated by restricted blood circulation. [...]

Orange Shoes

2010-03-26T18:25:21Z

It started innocently enough. I started dance classes and had to learn to dance in 2 inch heel shoes. As a long time flat shoe wearer, I asked myself a question: How can I dance in these shoes, when I feel wobbly walking in them? I compromised on a life time of sensibility and ardent [...]