What does Daddy do? A scientist. What does Mommy do? A pig. Pardon? Mommy’s a pig? A pig! A pig! A pig! Okay, no more questions.
10 reasons you might like to donate to my desk fund: You like the feel good feeling that rises up within you when you help an artist. You appreciate the various writings of The Girl, and would be interested to see the development of said writings done at a veritable professional WRITING STATION such as [...]
Monday, September 20, 2010
Something about Elsie on the phone in between two shots of our landmark (yeah, landmark) birthdays strikes me…as…what? What’s the sick metaphor here? I know there’s one.
Here’s a TVO print ad I did a while back, which people keep sending me random messages about. I saw your face at Union station…I saw you on the Go train—your face. One of my friends apparently went up to the large picture of my face and started having a little chat with me. People [...]
Friday, December 11, 2009
This is the conversation we had before Simon became a doctor. Go figure. SIMON. If you died, I would become that. THE GIRL. What? SIMON. Him. THE GIRL. Who? SIMON. That lying down cyclist. We stare as the lying down cyclist passes at a clip. THE GIRL. You would submit Elsie to that? SIMON. She [...]
Stop what you’re doing! I may be addicted and you may be too. Okay, not everyone needs to stop. Some of you can continue. Like mostly everybody. But. But. But. STOP READING if you’re a NEW MOTHER. Why? Well, friends, there is a possibility you (and possibly me) are addicted to the internet. As in [...]
Friday, February 13, 2009
Here’s my idea. Whoever comes up with the best caption for this photo wins a bag of 49th Parallel coffee beans (roasted in Vancouver and very yummy). ‘The best’ is entirely subjective, I realize. But let’s just say the caption that ‘moves’ me the most. So…ready, set, go. Leave your caption in the comments section. [...]
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
My ‘About Me‘ page is no longer accurate and hasn’t been for a while now. But somehow the overview seems daunting. I am resisting re-writing myself. But if my husband were sitting beside me he would encourage me to eat my frog. It’s a personal development phrase about doing the hard thing first, and don’t [...]
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Some boy from Ireland wrote a very nasty comment about my Bangs video on my YouTube profile. Apparently Simon and I are lifeless, pathetic…what-have-yous who don’t deserve to be parents. I feel sad and dirty. But as my dad says, there is more good in the world than evil. These pictures are a reminder.
