What else to say? It's a purple suede coat -- a no-brainer when I spied it at a vintage clothing store in Inglewood in Calgary. The left arm has been bleached from hanging in the store window. Needs new buttons.
This ankle-length, beige quilted coat was a Value Village special. Fake fur trims the hem and the hood. Perfect for marching through the icy streets......of which we have none in wet Vancouver.
Watch the Giller Power Panel on YouTube
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Watch the March 17 Power Panel, with Omar El Akkad, Larissa Lai, Thea Lim,
Saleema Nawaz, and Waubgeshig Rice.
The post Watch the Giller Power Panel on Y...
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Jared Bland, known for getting and leaving important positions in Canadian
culture, is out at M&S, but this time for a health reason, while former
literary...
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Reading Peter Schjeldahl Peter Schjeldahl builds paragraphs. Possibly no
other critic now writing in English has such a strong sense of what that
unit of...
These are the best B.C. books of 2019
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Here’s my yearly roundup of the best books released by local authors and
publishers this year, just in time for your last-minute literar...
Just how to Write a Personal Reflection
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The college entrance composition should never become a standard article
about your self. As a means to aid you in… Read More »
First blog post
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This is your very first post. Click the Edit link to modify or delete it,
or start a new post. If you like, use this post to tell readers why you
started t...
Seen Reading shortlisted for 2013 ReLit Award
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I was thrilled to learn that Seen Reading has been shortlisted for the 2013
ReLit Award for best collection of stories published by an independent
Canadian...
Letter.Box.Stamp.Collect.
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Pascalle Burton, in collaboration with the Queensland Poetry Festival
(Brisbane, Australia), has announced a special letterbox installation at
this year’s ...
"It's good to be home! Let's have a party!"
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I love classic Little Golden Books. We tend to think about old-timey morals
as being all hardass, but when you really examine these books, the message
is m...
Hey! Update your links!!
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Lemon Hound has a whole new life...see Volume 2 and keep checking back:
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not an argument, not a philosophy
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She certainly stood for something that was beyond order and beyond chaos,
beyond the radical and beyond the conservative. Which is what every (you
know) gr...
Raccoon Survives the Odds
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Recently, this young raccoon climbed into a garbage truck, likely expecting
an easy meal. What she didn't expect was to become trapped in the truck as
it c...
Foreclosure
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I spent last night reading over all the posts I’ve written. The earliest
days of the blog — specifically those leading up to the market peak in
Spring 200...