Since I decided one of my characters is an architect, I've been trolling architecture blogs. This stuff is just way too interesting. How about the spinach-powered house? Geodesic treehouses? Reused, stacked container houses? And that's just the gleanings from one blog: inhabitat.

My discovery of the day, when trying to find chords for Bonhomme bonhomme sais-tu jouer: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/m2-4000-e.html. Podcasts of historical recordings - La Bolduc! Songs of the First World War! Cool.

Saturday, May 10 at 6 PM at Laurel Building in downtown Kelowna, the winners of the Okanagan Short Story Contest will be announced. Judge John Gould will give a reading and present the prizes to the three winners.A few weeks ago, the finalists for the 2008 Okanagan Short Story Contest

The Loving the Difficult launch was extraordinary. The Heritage Hall was packed. Book sales were so brisk that Frances Wasserlein leapt in to help Janine Fuller at the book table. And Jane Rule's voice was there, almost in the air. Penny Goldsmith and Ann Saddlemyer read essays from the new

April 23, 7.30 pm, at the Heritage Hall in Vancouver, Hedgerow Press celebrates Jane Rule and launches Loving the Difficult, a collection of Jane Rule's essays. I've been asked to speak at the launch. The only post I regret losing is the one most easily replaced. After I wrote my