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Overeducated PhD dropout, high school teacher of students not stuff, parent of adults, cat herder, lover of pockets. she/them
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I was really hoping I’d ordered fast enough for a pink background, but the blue is still wonderful. I still need to get it framed, but that’s not a today job. Artist: Blake Angeconeb.
Photo of a colour print of green flowerpot with three chompy red and white plant heads and several tendrils done in more of a Woodland style. Bright blue background with white edging.
January 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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(2024 reading list, continued)
81. Kai Cheng Thom — I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World 82. C.J. Archer — The Librarian of Crooked Lane 83. David A. Robertson — The Misewa Saga: The Sleeping Giant 84. Chuck Tingle — Bury Your Gays 85. Richard Wagamese — What Comes from Spirit: A Memoir 86. Richard Wagamese — Ragged Company (read twice) 87. Zalika Reid- Benta — River Mumma 88. Billy-Ray Belcourt — Coexistence 89. Anna Bogutskaya — Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate 90. Kelly Hayes & Miriam Kaba — Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care 91. Richard Wagamese — Keeper’N Me 92. John Vaillant — Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast 93. Tananarive Due — My Soul to Keep 94. Kirsten Miller — Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books 95. Cherie Dimaline — The Marrow Thieves 96. Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell (Eds.) — The Black Girl Survives in this One: Horror Stories 97. Richard Wagamese — The Next Sure Thing 98. Emily Austen — Interesting Facts about Space 99. Margot Douaihy — Blessed Water: A Sister Holiday Mystery 100. Kate Quinn — The Rose Code 101. Tananarive Due — The Good House 102. Deirdre Havrelock and Edward Kay — Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge 103. John Green — The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet 104. Taylor Jenkins Reid — The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 105. Drew Hayden Taylor — Cold 106. Nick Medina — Sisters of the Lost Nation 107. Neal Stephenson — Polostan 108. Grady Hendrix — How to Sell a Haunted House 109. Tanya Talaga — The Knowing 110. Carleigh Baker — Last Woman: Stories 111. Ashley C. Ford — Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir 112. Robin Wall Kimmerer — The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World 113. Lauren Graham — Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (And Everything in Between) 114. Lauren Graham — Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember 115. Carol Off — At a Loss for Words: Conversation in an Age of Rage 116. Norma Dunning — Kinauvit? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for Her Grandmother 117. Niigaan Sinclair — Winipek: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
January 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I read/listened to 117 books in 2024:
1. Suzanne Collins — The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 2. Margot Douaihy — Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery 3. John Irving — The Last Chairlift 4. Max Liboiron — Pollution is Colonialism 5. Aminah Mae Safi — Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix 6. Carley Fortune — Meet Me at the Lake 7. Akwaeke Emezi — The Death of Vivek Oji 8. R.F. Kuang — Babel: An Arcane History 9. Heather O’Neill — When We Lost Our Heads 10. Gabe Cole Novoa — Most Ardently: A Pride and Prejudice Remix 11. Rashid Khalidi — The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 12. Marcus McCann — Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path 13. Brit Bennett — The Vanishing Half 14. Sara Farizan — If You Could Be Mine 15. Lee Maracle — My Conversations with Canadians 16. Tarana Burke — Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement 17. Mara Wilson — Where Am I Now? True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame 18. Torrey Peters — Detransition, Baby 19. Marlowe Granados — Happy Hour 20. Sheima Benembarek — Halal Sex: The Intimate Lives of Muslim Women in North America 21. Michelle Good — Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada 22. Casey Plett — Little Fish 23. Amy Stuart — Still Mine 24. Holly Smale — Cassandra in Reverse 25. Gregory Scofield — Thunder through My Veins: A Memoir 26. Jes Battis — The Winter. Night 27. The Journey Prize Stories: The Best of Canada’s New Black Writers 28. Amy Stuart — Still Water 29. Darcie Little Badger — A Snake Falls to Earth 30. Beverley Kendall — Token 31. Chuck Tingle — Straight: A Novella 32. Drew Hayden Taylor — Motorcycles and Sweetgrass 33. Darcie Little Badger — Elatsoe 34. Edith Widder, PhD — Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea 35. Chelene Knight — Junie 36. Rebecca Roanhorse — Race to the Sun 37. Tanya Talaga — Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City 38. Michael Crummey — The Innocents 39. Mini Aodla Freeman — Life Among the Qallunaat 40. Brittney Morris — Slay 41. Tomson Highway — Kiss of the Fur Queen 42. Cynthia Leitich Smith — Hearts Unbroken 43. Alice Wong (Ed.) — Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century 44. Hazel Jane Plante — Any Other City 45. Sara Florence Davidson and Robert Davidson — Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning through Ceremony 46. David A. Robertson — Monsters 47. David A. Robertson — Ghosts 48. David A. Robertson — Strangers 49. L.L. McKinney — Escaping Mr. Rochester 50. Alexis Hall — Mortal Follies 51. Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Eds.) — Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology 52. Helen Knott — Becoming a Matriarch 53. Elizabeth Lim — Six Crimson Cranes 54. Guinevere Turner — When the World Didn’t End: A Memoir 55. Jordan Peele (Ed.) — Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror 56. Stephen Graham Jones — The Only Good Indians 57. Sarah Everett — The Probability of Everything 58. Morgan Talty — Night of the Living Rez 59. Esi Edugyan — Half-Blood Blues 60. Drew Hayden Taylor — The Night Wanderer: A Native Gothic Novel 61. Lynne Segal — Lean on Me: A Politics of Radical Care 62. John Green — Paper Towns 63. Christina Wong and Daniel Innes — Denison Avenue 64. Suzanne Young — In Nightfall 65. Miranda July — All Fours 66. Alice Wong (Ed.) — Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire 67. David A. Robertson — The Evolution of Alice 68. Ann Patchett — Tom Lake 69. V.E. Schwab — Vicious 70. Elizabeth Renzetti — Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls 71. Emily J. Taylor — Hotel Magnifique 72. Kathleen Hanna — Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk 73. Ann Napolitano — Hello Beautiful 74. Evie Woods — The Lost Bookshop 75. Akweke Emezi — Little Rot 76. Cherie Dimaline — Tiger Lily and the Secret Treasure of Neverland 77. Madeline Miller — Circe 78. Chrissy King — The Body Liberation Project 79. Cicely Tyson — Just as I Am 80. Louise Erdrich — Future Home of the Living God
January 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Happy Hannukah to me.
Image of matching front-load white washer and dryer, with a black and white tiled floor that desperately needs a scrub.
December 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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I walked into my room earlier and found my cat resting like this.

The kitten plushies were not set up like that when I’d last been in the room.

I am the only human currently in my house.
Image of a wee black and white cat surrounded by three small kitten plushies. In the background is a white ghost cushion, a pinks star cushion, a green monster plushie, a grey lumbar pillow, a grey bed chair, a long grey cat pillow. Everything is on top of a pink and white checked bedspread.
December 12, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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But even meal kits haven’t been enough for me in the last 6 weeks or so. My burnout is way too high.

Tonight, though? I cooked.

Well, first I spent over an hour cleaning the kitchen.

Then I cooked.

Tofu shakshuka.

It turned out pretty tasty!
Image of a bowl filled with sliced avocado, cubes of tofu, red peppers in tomato sauce.
November 21, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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We created a trans-affirming reading nook to give students space to recognize Transgender Day of Remembrance in ways that work for them.
Image of the corner of a room. One wall is covered in book shelves. The other wall has windows halfway up the wall, with a ledge. The corner is obscured by a trans Pride flag. There are plants, as well as two low-slung orange chairs. Each chair has a colourful printed cushion. There is a small table in front of the chairs covered in picture books. The ledge under the window has art created by trans former students, as well as a sign indicating that November 20 is Transgender Day of Remembrance. On the window ledge are more picture books, and in the corner of the window is a selection of trade-size books, both fiction and nonfiction.
November 20, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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Reskeet with the fictional character around whom you base your personality:
Image of a white woman with red hair loosely tied back in a bun with some curly framing bits. She is wearing a purple collared print dress, and is sitting in the driver’s seat of a school bus. A green lizard is in her lap, hands on the steering wheel.
August 2, 2023 at 12:19 AM