Steal This Book!

Writer J.A. Konrath (you may know him from his successful Jack Daniels murder mystery series) wants to prove a point. For months, he’s been touting the validity of ebooks and epublishing, and now he wants you to “steal” one of his books. Do pirates...
Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters

Dear Readers,I hope you had a better weekend than I did. Like many of my fellow Winnipeggers, I spent the weekend bailing out my poor basement during a torential rainstorm. The city’s catch basins overflowed, spilling grey rainwater onto my floor, at a...

Neat Treat!

Dear Readers, The lovely Annie of Annie’s Eats, a foodie blog I follow religiously, posted about the coolest treat recently. An American company called Chocomize allows you to design extremely unique customized chocolate bars, which they then create and ship to...
Beating the Birthday Curse

Beating the Birthday Curse

Hello Dear Readers,Thanks for all the wishes for a better birthday. I do seem to have finally managed to beat the birthday curse–it was a wonderful weekend. I spent Saturday with my awesome friend Donna, who presented me with six tiny plants that she grew in her...

The Reality Check

There was a beautiful girl on my bus today. She was quite young, probably only sixteen or seventeen–eighteen at the most. She certainly made a statement, in spite of being a tiny little thing. Her waist-long black hair was streaked with crimson, and she wore a...