Category Archives: Webwriting

Shopping locally this Christmas is a gift to the Royal City

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Check out my new article on Occupying Christmas by shopping and celebrating locally on New West blog Tenth to the Fraser! As the Christmas shopping season arrives with Black Friday in the US, I can’t think of anything more ridiculous … Continue reading →

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Misquoted Facebook status becomes misattributed quote in mere keystrokes

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

Anatomy of a Fake Quotation – Megan McArdle – National – The Atlantic. All it took was one misunderstanding and the deletion of a couple of quotation marks for one Facebook status update to become a quote widely misattributed to … Continue reading →

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Why I write

Posted on March 2, 2009 by

I can answer that question pretty simply: I write because I’m hungry. Not just for food, but for communication. To talk to someone and create some kind of reaction with them. When I was a kid, dreaming of being a … Continue reading →

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EAC meeting addresses the power and perils of writing online

Posted on March 12, 2008 by

The Editors’ Association BC Branch has just announced their topic for the March monthly meeting and it looks like a good one: Public-Private Boundaries in Online Writing and Publishing. It will be held at the usual bat time and bat … Continue reading →

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