If you ended up here thanks to this discussion of women of colour bloggers on BlogHer, allow me to provide a brief introduction:

  • I’ve been online since 1993. I wrote my first online journal posting in 1994 or so using Pico on a UNIX server.
  • I’ve had a few primary domains over the years, including babygrrl.com (defunct), formica.ca (defunct, thanks to the Formica Corporation), notformi.ca, and this one.
  • These days I blog less and photograph more. Photography has become my preferred method of keeping a journal.

If you’d like to know more, feel free to head over to my about page. Cheers, and thanks for stopping by.

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Childish Things

27 February, 2010

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One of the challenges I’m facing on this new path I’m trying to follow is learning to curb my temper. I generally have a long fuse and can ignore things for quite some time, but when I finally go off, my outbursts remind me (at times) of child-like temper tantrums. I pout, I stomp, I scream sometimes; more often than not I just go silent and refuse to talk to the person or interact with the thing that I consider to be the offending party.

When this happens, I let many, many things go unsaid. And that quite simply is not healthy.

Someone who was once a friend once said that not everything needs air. In some ways I agree with that, because there are some feelings, hurt feelings, explosive emotions, and the like, that more often than not are best kept to ourselves. I think apologies are the exception to this rule, because without them, even if two people try to pick up where they left off, or to move toward a new direction in a relationship, the obstacle still exists.

Children, I think, find it really hard to make apologies. The childish part of me feels the same way. Age and experience has shown me that it’s time to put away these childish things.

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Getting to Know the New York Public Library

February 26, 2010

The New York Public Library recently unveiled their new website design, and I must say that I’m very impressed by the amount of user research and testing that went into seeing this project through. The site is lively, colourful, and eye-catching, and the information architecture, labeling, and information flow all seem to have been designed [...]

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Couch Potato

February 24, 2010
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I’ve been fighting a cold the last couple of days. I think it may be winning.

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Vancouver Cycle Chic

February 22, 2010
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Style (well, by Vancouver standards anyway) and safety, all in one package.

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Have You Seen Me?

February 21, 2010

If you’re a Person of a Certain Age (and American), you probably remember a time when missing children were pictured on milk cartons. The belief was that by placing the photos on a surface that people see every day, people would eventually come to pay attention to the faces, thereby increasing the chances that the [...]

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Colour My World

February 21, 2010

Yesterday’s walkabout at Granville Island was all about colour:

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Small Town in the Big City

February 18, 2010
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(Bike) Chains of Love

February 14, 2010
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There’s a part of me that really wants to go on this ride tomorrow. There’s another part of me that thinks that police presence will be ridiculously high — especially after yesterday’s protests — and I should avoid it at all costs.

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A Tale of Two Crowds

February 13, 2010

Emotions ran high on the streets of Vancouver today. It was a day of celebration and protest, a day of vibrant life and chilling death. I can’t begin to imagine what the next 16 days will bring.

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