Here’s a video by local musician, Jeremy Fisher - fabulous not only for his great tunes and homemade videos, but also because he bicycled (!!!) across Canada and the States on his tour a few years ago (toting his acoustic guitar on his extended back rack).

Street art rocks my world. It’s magic for the kid in me, finding treasures on weird streetcorners and hidden messages scrawled on lampposts.
My fabulous friend Robin, a dedicated knitter (amoung other things), has been creating “cozies” for the urban jungle for a few years now. Mostly scattered around Strathcona, you’ll occaisionally encounter her knitted mini-sculptures […]

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Last night I dreamt about my hometown (London, Ontario).
In my dream, the city was filled with incredibly tall trees, and the river was wide and rough and wild.
I haven’t visited London since 1993.
I dream about London a lot, but I don’t think about it during the day.
Two summers ago, I visited two […]

In the spirit of all things sustainably frivolous & celebratory, here’s a video of an immense disco on wheels. (And no, I’m afraid I don’t know who built it, but I think it’s doing the rounds at the Burning Man Festival…)

How’s this for sustainable travel? A little winter treat - one of my favourite songs (Style Council’s “My Ever Changing Moods”) featuring retro gear…

I freely admit that we have a dysfunctional relationship, music and I. When I was about 5, I discovered my older brother’s David Bowie albums in the attic and promptly memorized a whole bunch of really inappropriate lyrics, which I would happily sing loudly when guests came over. At 6 I started sitting at the […]

One of my favourite songs in the whole wide world is Bill Wither’s 1977 hit, Lovely Day. This song can transform my mood from sad to glad in a heartbeat. And it’s often a song that I hum when I’m riding my bicycle through the wet and wild city on my way to one of […]