Welcome to the top of the mental mulch pile…
…the thirty things most recently added to the pile that aren’t links to elsewhere!
Hey choir fam,
So I’ve needed to take a few days to process last weekend’s retreat, much more so than past years…
I was inspired to pull together this list by one of my When Words Collide fam, Erin Weir, and her recent Erin’s Favourite Things post on her blog, A Flimsy Plan. As someone who talks and thinks a lot about gratitude, I thought this would be a nice twist on the usual kind of gratitude list. But what would be in such a list for me?…
So I’ve been pondering a new metaphor for body, mind, and soul… one that has been slowly taking root on the mental mulch pile, growing from a particularly rich little corner of music and choir and community…
I have now spent over thirty years working in communications, marketing, and branding. The most important thing I've learned... the most important principle for doing this job ethically and well... can be summed up in a saying that's been around about twice as long as that...
This was written in response to a social media post regarding an anti-trans protest and counter protest that is scheduled to happen tomorrow, which reads in part “This event has a high potential for violence, especially towards visibly queer and racialized individuals… If you are visibly queer and/or racialized, we recommend that you AVOID this area on that day”…
Friendly reminder to the Universe that a University is not at its core meant to be corporation but a community...
A three-asterisk and seven-word update of my original XKCD Digital Lifespan Chart in Context…
Something to share from the writing side!
Delighted to announce the publication of Contemporary Issues in Collection Management, in which I had the privilege of co-writing the opening chapter…
Staring up at the chaos exposed by the renovations in one of the building I occasionally occupy, the thought occurred to me that buildings are very much like bodies… complex systems and machinery barely hidden behind a thin skin…
It’s such a fine balance to try to find and hold, between who you are and who you need to be in this world…
When encountering anything that conflicts with your own preconceived notions…
Delighted to share my latest Juvenilia Press design project, Jane Austen’s Sir Charles Grandison, that she began writing when she was 16 and completed at age 24 with the help of her niece Anna.
I was reminded today, powerfully and profoundly, that while maybe I can’t change the whole world, fix all that hurts and all that is broken, I can do everything I can to change my whole world…
I’ve spoken often, and written here and elsewhere, about curiosity as a core driving force in my life. Some would describe it as being in a state of perpetual wonder, which I love.
But curiosity is an outlook, a motivator, a frame of mind. It’s not an action. So what is it to put curiosity to action?
Inspired by the things I was learning in library school about special collections and the history of the book…
Mermaid SeaSystems is a biotechnology firm using genomics technology to solve problems in natural and built water environments.
We worked with their Operations Manager and the company Founder / Chief Technology Officer to develop their new corporate logo.
So if there’s one overarching lesson that I’m learning as I study to become a librarian, it’s that the world is complex, but, to me at least, joyously so…
I’ve been reminded a lot recently about the difference between looking for someone or something to blame, and looking for lessons to learn…
In a moment that speaks to one of our three core principles in life – Make Things – I made some things, submitted pictures of those things, am getting recognized for those things!
My dystopian altered book series has been included in the 2021 Art from the Unknown virtual exhibit, featuring pieces based on three ‘classic’ dystopian novels – Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World…
I’ve now been designing books for the Juvenilia Press for over twenty-five years, and it continues to be a high point in my design life. And so I am delighted to share my latest Juvenilia Press project, hot off the presses, The Beautifull Cassandra by Jane Austen, with illustrations and afterwords by Juliet McMaster.
So just a heads up to everyone, and with apologies for being a bit of a downer potentially, but I’d never heard of any sort of daughter's day or son's day before this past week, so I did some cursory digging around…
Since May 2021, the Black Riders website has been hosted on…