Things I wrote
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Grace, the main character of the book, is based on a real person who was an infamous murderess in 1840s Toronto. Atwood based her character on the real Grace Marks, but there wasn't a lot to go on so she invented much of the novel.
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A few weeks ago I listend to a 99% Invisible podcast about how garbage is handled in Taiwan. I found it absolutely fascinating. And to be quite honest, I've been thinking about garbage ever since.
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Quite a while ago, probably over a year, I started <em>Madness, Rack, and Honey</em> by Mary Ruefle. This past weekend I picked it back up, sat out in the sun, and finished it.
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On this day ten years ago G, Sally, and I arrived in an eastern suburb of Portland, we were here to stay. We drove that day from Billings, Montana through to Spokane, down through the Tri Cities, finally making our way to I-84 and the absolutely gorgeous drive through the Columbia River Gorge to arrive in Portland.
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How do you define a Pattern Library? A Style Guide? A Design System? Are they the same thing or aspects of one another? I've been working hard to come up with what those terms mean. Part of that is seeing how are others defining them. I've seen quite a few posts come into my stream doing exactly that; defining how they use these terms.
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And for the most part I've been doing all my drawing in sketchbooks. The exceptions have been cards I've made for people, but other than that, I stick to the sketchbooks even though I have some really nice stand alone paper.
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Along with <em>Local</em>, I finished <em>Palestine</em> over the weekend. A really lovely and difficult read at times. Joe Sacco spent several months in Palestine in the early 1990s and he chronicles what he learned in the book.
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Just recently Simon recommended a whole slew of comic books and I added a bunch of them onto my list and just this past week got started reading them. First up was <em>Local</em> and it is absolutely brilliant.
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I've read several articles lately that talk about our bodies and how they work when it comes to weight and weight loss. I've been fascinated by them, because each of them is taking the advice we've been given for decades on how to be healthy and turning it on its head.
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If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, then you've probably seen my latest 100 day project. I started on April 19 and am going into July and each day I'm drawing a small self portrait
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I know it's early to say this, but <em>Nimona</em> is in the running for the best book I've read in 2016.
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Le Guin, after reading just two of her books, is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. She critiques so much about our society so well through the building of her worlds and characters.
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There are a handful of books that I've read in my life that I can point to and say: “This book changed my life.” <em>Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered</em> by E.F. Schumacher has entered into that small group.
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<em>Fatale</em> is an old fashioned noir looking mystery with a bit of an occult twist.
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<em>Ms. Marvel</em> is probably my favorite comic series ever (at least right now).