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We spent a glorious few days in Tucson at Seline and Dylan's wedding. It was perfectly sublime, with fairy lights, mouth-crunch cake, ol...

It has rained steadily for the past week or so. Douglas made Saira a super-cute gore-tex raincoat so she stays dry: This morning the clouds ...

Our housewarming party was last night, and it was fabulous. We don't know that many folks in town yet, so it was small. Not all of our f...

Poor Saira got skunked this week. I let her out on the back porch Wednesday night, and she came back minutes later, stinking and shaking. I...

This weekend we went camping with my parents in Golden Ears Provincial Park, just an hour's drive from our house. Well, it would have b...

Last Thursday morning, when I was heading out to work, I found a black baseball hat in the middle of our backyard. I figured someone had tos...

Last weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving, and our family gathered at my parents' house in Langley to eat turkey and celebrate the harvest....

I just found a few of my favorite pictures from Buenos Aires. On Sundays in San Telmo there is an antique market that stretches for blocks a...

Douglas and Saira are in Challis, ID this week, helping Mark build a skate park. Saira has a lot of experience working with concrete, and Do...

When I visited Tokyo a long time ago, one of my favorite things was the tiny pocky candy shaped like mushrooms. Little chocolate mushroom ca...

When I first started this blog, I intended to use it to keep track of my knitting projects. Of course, I didn't post a single thing abou...

My one respectable, professional pair of shoes died a noble death in my job interview last week, and when I went to work this morning, it wa...

On Friday I had two job interviews - one over the phone, for a biology-type job that I was pretty excited about, the other an in-person seco...

That's what they call a deep fryer in the South. It's also what Douglas has become. And you know he doesn't do anything by halve...

While I am working on the website for the new Biodiversity Museum (the site will go public soon and I'll post a link) up at UBC, I am al...

My friend Emily is living in Quito, Ecuador for the next 4 months on a Rotary scholarship. She's taking Spanish classes and blogging abo...

Something I remember loving about Vancouver is the independent Chinese grocery stores. They rock. They are packed with everything you could ...

Douglas can't work in Canada yet, so while I work in the daytime, he putters around the house, rides his bike, and dreams up things to b...

We are in bicycling heaven. We moved here from a place where people would routinely swear or throw things at us, just for being out on bikes...