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		<title>February Art Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by our January felting &#38; looming workshop at Leola&#8217;s Studio, Renaissance Woman Sheila challenged the rest of us to commit to creating art every day for a month. We thought it was a great idea, and each signed up for a few days in February. (Not coincidentally, the shortest month of the year &#8230;) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrift Shop Adventures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a small town with a spectacular thrift store. It was run by the local Hospital Ladies Auxiliary, and I vaguely remember lining up with a crowd of shoppers in the entrance-way of the pharmacy in anticipation of their weekly opening. A little old lady would open the door, hug the wall, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Age of Artifice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My fifth column was published November 22, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: My partner Brock, a full-time vegetable farmer, spends his work day lifting heavy tubs of carrots, yanking out overgrown weeds and balancing precariously on ladders to build greenhouses. I type. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend DIY: Create Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was jonesing for a kitchen project this weekend so finally tried something on my bucket list: making a sourdough starter from scratch. Sourdough bread is my absolute favourite, with its chewy moistness and subtle sour aroma. I usually feed my addiction by investing in $5 loaves from some of the Cowichan Valley&#8217;s many amazing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revelations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My fourth column was published June 27, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: I crave an apocalypse. Not the sort where the earth implodes, or even the kind that wipes out half the population and creates a Lord of the Flies society. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing My First Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 23:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know how it feels to have a dream, work really hard at it for a long time, and then have that dream come true? It feels amazing. I&#8217;ve wanted to write books since I was five. I know that because I have an illustrated flipbook I made in kindergarten that says: &#8220;When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death and the Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My third column was published April 9, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: On a hot August day a middle-aged Greek man strides through the farmers’ market, sees our sandwich board, and stops to read it again. “Makaria Farm!” he announces, and comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reluctant Farm Wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My second column was published February 21, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: I invented the iPod. I was walking past an antique store and saw a jukebox, and thought: “how amazing, to own a personal jukebox – you could have all your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teleportation &amp; Animal Kinship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-Skilling in a Virtual Reality &#8230; I&#8217;ve never been a gamer. Aside from Mahjong Solitaire and the occasional click through Minesweeper I&#8217;ve never been tempted. Perhaps it&#8217;s because I already spend the majority of my day staring down a computer screen, so when I earn a free evening or weekend I prefer to debate philosophy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Makaria Farm</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write a column for The Winnipeg Review, an online literary magazine. My first column was published January 18, 2012 and is online here. Excerpt: In the spring of 2007 we decided that our city life would not be enough, no matter how many karaoke parties we hosted. Brock and I were renting the penthouse [...]]]></description>
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