Sher’s Autumn Soup

For the fall equinox I made my mum Sher’s famous Autumn Soup recipe, and I also made a Mennonite favourite for dessert, Plum Platz. I’ll share that recipe next week. The making of a big, steaming pot of this delicious soup was always a glorious herald of fall in the Goerzen house when I was [...]

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Notes from the Basement: My Sticker Book – Wacky Packs

I recently took my prized childhood sticker book off the shelf, dusted it off, and flipped through it. There were the shinies, the small scratch ‘n sniffs, the large scratch ‘n sniffs, the fuzzies, the puffies, the googly-eyed puffies, the fuzzy puffies… I remember so carefully organizing them into this archived hierarchy of stickers. When [...]

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Notes from the Basement: My Journal, Age 15 (Part 2)

Okay, so let’s discuss. Like I mentioned in my first post about my recently rediscovered age fifteen journal, I was a superior, stuck-up little snot who disliked pretty much anything popular or mainstream. I prided myself on being so different from other kids my age, and liking exotic things like Woody Allen movies, e.e. cummings’ [...]

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Notes from the Basement: My Journal, Age 15 (Part 1)

The first page of my “Thoughts Book #3″ (AKA my journal), 1991, age 15 – gad, what a stuck-up, pretentious, superior little snot I was. Me, age 15 – this was my extremely cultivated ‘Annie Hall’ look – of course none of the teenyboppers and idiots at my junior high got it. Am I really [...]

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How to Eat Like a Child

The other day, as Keaton and I were sitting at the table and enjoying breakfast together, I was thinking about the differences in how grown-ups and children eat. Not just what they eat, but more specifically how.

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Notes from the Basement: Sunshine Coast Magazine Pt. 3 of 3

Recipe Thursday will resume next week – I’m having too much fun with this trip down memory lane! Wow. Epic. Don’t you love the Swatch watch in page 12′s ponytail? And how the book reviews are front and centre – ’cause you gotta have your make-up essentials, but you also gotta have a good book [...]

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Notes from the Basement: Sunshine Coast Magazine, Pt. 2 of 3

For Part 1 and an explanation, click here.

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Notes from the Basement: Sunshine Coast Magazine, Pt. 1 of 3

‘Notes from the Basement’ is an occasional series featuring bits of nostalgia and memories from my life as a kid/teenager, recently dug up while going through boxes of my childhood stuff in my mum’s – you guessed it – basement. My love of fashion magazines started when I was about twelve, when I spent my [...]

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My On Again, Off Again Love Affair with Ballet

These black ballet slippers were actually my high school prom shoes (which was, *gulp* seventeen years ago now) – they accompanied the medieval-style green velvet dress that my mum and I designed and made, plus the daisy chain around my head (professionally made by a florist). I really, really have to dig up a photo [...]

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Girl Crushes

My biggest, longest-lasting girl crush: Winona. I love crushes. I’m someone who’s prone to obsessions from mild to serious, and crushes just seem to go with the territory. Whether it’s a celebrity or a real person you’re crushing on, you just gotta love that twinkly-hearted, joyful feeling you get. In a special class for me [...]

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