Many thanks to the new queer book club in Vancouver for choosing Another Kind of Cowboy as their first book and for being so hospitable when I visited. Thanks also to the amazing kids and teachers at Maple Creek Middle School who hosted me and many other writers and performers for their literacy conference.
Now for the excuse portion of the update. I have been making podcasts and then deleting them. The problem is that they are sort of… well, bad. Something about the process of recording your own voice and playing it back is disconcerting. Maybe it’s an author thing. I’ve recently become addicted to audiobooks and almost every one I’ve tried that was read by the author was AWFUL. All of the authors had this weird slurry thing going on, like they were drunk or had a mouth full of gobstoppers. Now, whenever I record myself, I can hear that same excessive “sssss” sound. I’m not sure I can post the podcast until I go to speech therapy. Which could be a while.
Until I get it together, I encourage you to listen to This American Life and pretend that I had something to do with it. Oh, and if you’re into podcasting, check out CBC’s The Current podcast for February 12. An entire episode about urban agriculture. That’s my dream, baby! A little piece of the farm right here at home. Now if only there weren’t all those pesky bylaws to contend with…