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All chopped up

Okay, this’ll be the last post about the giant pile of wood in my backyard, or my wood-chopping weather woes, but dang it, if it don’t feel good to get that pile o’ wood chopped and stacked! Check it. From this: To this: It’s all ready to go...

This running stuff does work

Despite the lack of updates about it, I am still at this running thing. Three times a week, with my running group and sometimes on my own when I miss their running times. I’m not sure which I prefer right now. I’m naturally a hermit and have cycled many...

Playing the rain game

The thing about having a pile of wood in your backyard, in plain sight of your office, is that you always want to get out there and get that sucker chopped. It sounds perverse, I know. Who would want to actually chop wood? But knowing that the cold weather is on its...

Chopping through plot problems

If it’s October, then it’s wood chopping time around here and that’s the pile I got to chop. We have a really great woodstove that beats the pants off the wimpy electric heaters stuck to the baseboards in our apartment. So, each fall I buy about half...

Run, Mel, run!

Well, I survived last night’s induction into the cult of the Running Room with no major injuries or heart failure. It was actually easier than I expected, but we were only doing run one minute, walk two minutes. I know it’ll get harder in the coming weeks,...

Run, Liam, run!

Tonight marks the start of a new era for me: at 6:30 pm, I start my very first Learn to Run clinic at the local Running Room. That’s right, I’m joining the cult of running. For more than a year, I’ve watched Melanie strap on her shoes and hit the...

Back from Batavia

Got back last night from a great trip to the US where I spoke about graphic novels to a group of librarians from various schools in the Genesee Valley area of New York State. It was all part of their Library Devolopment Day, organized by the Genesee Valley BOCES....

Heading south to talk comics

With Harpo’s right-wingers cutting literacy programs here in Canada, it’s fitting that I’m heading across the border to the US next week to talk to librarians about comics and literacy. After all, librarians and educators in the US are on the front...