Category: Moments and Memories
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Do It Yourself, in the Seventies and Eighties
DIY in the Seventies and Eighties: We didn’t have the internet, didn’t have Google, and often didn’t even have electricity or a phone. But we had books. Here are some of the essential books that told me how to do the things I wanted to do or needed to do.
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My Interview on CBC Daybreak North, with Carolina deRyk, Oct 4, 2023
Having just published Knots and Stitches, I’m still a bit shy to talk about it. I was lucky to have Carolina deRyk as host of my first interview. She immediately put me at ease, and asked such interesting questions that I found myself talking quite easily. I’ve tried to match the photos to some of…
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Exceedingly Cautious
I was exceedingly cautious lighting the propane stove, convinced it might blow sky-high and take me with it, and I was just as careful with the hatchet and axe, the flaring Aladdin lantern, the jar of mayonnaise cooling in the creek. I pored over first aid manuals, underlining the sections on food poisoning, lock-jaw,…
Knots and Stitches 