An ant found crawling in my linen drawer is enough to remind me how not cool I am with sharing space with certain other creatures on the planet who have as much right to be here as I do. In theory, I believe there are far too many of us humans on the planet and...
Author: Vivian Lee (Vivian Lee)
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The Sedentarian’s Dilemma
What do you do when the activities you enjoy the most involve sitting in a chair? I’ve talked about this before on my blog, about how hard I find it to keep up an exercise routine. I’ve attempted various types that never lasted. My longest success was probably yoga and even that was interrupted by...
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Ravelry: A hotbed of Craftivism*
Recently Ravelry put their foot down about members using their platform to spread hate speech and support white supremacy, in the form of Donald Trump and his administration. From now on nobody is allowed to express their support of DJT or white supremacy. As their New Policy statement says: “We cannot provide a space that...
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Perspective (Part 3 about Aging)
The old adage goes, “Youth is wasted on the young.” (I thought it was Oscar Wilde, but after a tiny bit of googling I found out it was more likely George Bernard Shaw, which you can read about here.) I’ve always loved that quote and admired the wit behind it. It evokes so much in...
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Aging ain’t all bad
I thought I’d do a short series on aging since it’s on my mind lately. There are obvious downsides to it (check my previous post here), but there are many upsides and I thought I’d do a couple of posts focusing on those. Most of us know the downsides, but if I remember being young...
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Upping my Blogging game, and some thoughts about aging
I’m a complete amateur when it comes to web design, I admit it. However, I’m trying to make my website better and it seems that everything I try is met with resistance. All I get is the circle of death. The problem is I’m such a know-nothing that I don’t even know where to start...
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A cold spring day’s thoughts
Section I, about the news With a title like that, I’m sure you won’t be surprised to hear that I’m not feeling super today. I’m getting sick of cold, rainy spring days, and the sunshine this morning only made the return of the clouds that much more painful and unwelcome. The fact that my house...
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Where I answer some comments
Despite not wanting to give my detractors much credibility, I’m tempted to answer a couple of the comments made after my original post about sexism in Vienna. I’m not going back to read them, because, ugh, but a few of them have stuck in my mind, so I thought I’d talk through them and hopefully...
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Welcome to The Vomitorium
That is, the internet. My friend wrote those words to me (with slightly different punctuation) after my last blog post which you can read here, if you didn’t catch it. It went viral… or the equivalent of viral in my tiny corner of the blogging world. I was surprised by both the positive and negative...
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Musings on sexism in the music scene of Vienna
Recently, I was on tour with the OSM (L’orchestre symphonique de Montréal) and we had a few days in Vienna. Vienna is a beautiful city with scads of musical and other cultural activities available any day of the week. I didn’t plan anything in advance, and I was not all that drawn to the idea...