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Have Milk Will Travel: EVENT! 26 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
I am excited to be part of an event on Friday September 13 to launch the anthology about breastfeeding Have Milk Will Travel, along with editor Rachel Epp Buller, Carrie Snyder, and Sarah Campbell, al...
Sweet Summer 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
I’ve been drinking tea with sugar cubes since the end of July. This came about while we were at the cottage and I was drinking my tea out of a pyrex mug, and it just seemed wrong to take tea in pyrex ...
Mary Pratt: On Blogging, and Preserving Light and Time 26 Aug 2013 | 07:24 am
MARY PRATT Smears of Jam, Lights of Jelly. 2007. oil on canvas 40.6 x 50.8 cm It is not a huge leap to look at Mary Pratt’s paintings and have thoughts turn to ideas about the containment and preserv...
Buy hardback fiction and poetry. 25 Aug 2013 | 03:33 am
“Buy hardback fiction and poetry. Request hardback fiction and poetry as gifts from everyone you know. Give hardback fiction and poetry as gifts to everyone. No shirt or sweater ever changed a life. N...
A Major Milestone 22 Aug 2013 | 02:05 am
In which Iris tastes a book for the very first time.
On a bookish coincidence, and long-time friends 21 Aug 2013 | 02:05 am
It has been fifteen years since I met my friend Katie, as we walked across Queens Park at the end of Vic’s Frosh Week. From the moment I first encountered her, in the midst of that disorientating, ove...
Flaws in the cloth, flies in the ointment. 17 Aug 2013 | 10:01 pm
Me breastfeeding on a ferry-boat. I am proud of this. It occurs to me that as I enter my mid-thirties, only now am I really learning how to be alive, how to be strong, to be brave. Part of this is ha...
Books in the Meantime 16 Aug 2013 | 06:42 am
And there are books in the meantime. My vacation reads continued right up until yesterday. I read Grace Paley’s Collected Stories for a whole week, and they were amazing, difficult, heavy and gorgeous...
Destination Bookshop: Ella Minnow Books 14 Aug 2013 | 08:59 pm
Destination Bookshop is a new feature here at Pickle Me This! Part book-shopping-spree, part city travel guide, we want to inspire you to visit vibrant neighbourhoods all over the Toronto with excelle...
Going Out With Harriet 13 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
During the last weeks of my pregnancy and in the six weeks after Iris’s birth, I wasn’t able to pick up Harriet, and when I was finally permitted to pluck her up again, there was no plucking about it–...
