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I'm ashamed to admit I've sent Joey, now 9, to four different dance studios. And back in June, unsatisfied with yet another dance recital, I bought tickets to my old dance studio's year-end show—just to prove that awesome, So You Think You Can Dance-calibre studios still exist. And man, did my old studio deliver. The kids were flying, toes were pointed, legs were high, chins lifted, knees straight. There were abs happening, biceps and those singular thigh muscles that only develop from working hard on your ballet turn-out. The choreography was as spectacular as it was then—in the 80s, 90s, golden age of that studio, when I was there.
Going to that show brought back one of the most creative and exciting times of my life. I was part of some of the most exquisite lyricals, most jaw-dropping tap, jazz and hip hop numbers, and I performed solos across the country. My mom was one of the original dance moms; and my teacher the original Abby Lee Miller.
I danced three days a week, all evening, not including rehearsals. My mad but amazing teachers advised us to sleep in the splits, go to tanning salons (which, thankfully, I didn't do), and at 14 years old, I was instructed to lose 30 pounds, among other fun stuff. Later, I'd go on to take adult classes with the likes of Neve Campbell, I'd choose university over a job with a Canadian "Fly Girl" company, and I'd teach for a while until I turned fully to my next life, in the Ivory Tower of academia.
Kids in Joey's dance classes struggle to do a single pirouette; but we were doing quadruple pirouettes at her age, switch splits, fouettes and fancy acrobatics.
I've tried, but I can't give her the experience that shaped me big time. And I can't bring back that experience. At all.
Even if I just wanted to watch some of my old solos, or the best dances we performed—to Janet Jackson, C&C Music Factory, The Wiz, Madonna—I'd have to resurrect someone's old VHS player. It's all just gone. *Poof.* Like a Snap Chat conversation.
The only place it exists for me is in my mind—intricate pieces of the choreography still, the music, the people.
To replace the dancing, I turned to the most A-type yoga I could find: authentic Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga with David Robson, who is known for being hardcore, perhaps as hardcore as Abby Lee Miller, only ethical and, well, ripped! I sailed along through Primary and into very advance poses of Second Series. And then suddenly, I got injured—a pinched nerve, like a perpetual sword in my shoulder blade, my own fault—and what I see now as the exhilarating dance-like performance elements of the more advance poses was also gone for the time being.
And I've never felt so stuck.
In these last two weeks, in which I've been focused on healing, I've been learning to let it all go and just accept where I am—which is, in large part, a result of that golden age. My exciting, creative, traumatizing dancing years made me a serious high achiever and (notwithstanding a few years of not-letting-go of pregnancy weight) gave me the strong, healthy body I have today—indeed, my thigh muscles are those of a dancer, not of a yogi.
I didn't realize I hadn't really taken off those old dancing shoes until this crazy new phase of my life began, likely with a certain milestone birthday. Didn't know what I needed was to walk, not away from who I used to be, but beyond it maybe—with a dancer's poise, flexibility, grace and strong legs.
But hey, if you see me in da club (or, well, anywhere with dancing)? You may want to give me lots of space.]]>
The funny thing is, the day before we came home from our holiday, I'd happened on this poster. It was posted on Facebook by Dr. Wayne Dyer (who's work I've never been into), and shared by someone I follow. I thought it was cool but disregarded it and moved on. And it just stuck with me.
So, that night, I searched for it again for an embarrassingly long time while the Monkey and I were watching a movie; I wanted to save it on my iPhone so both of us could remember it in moments of anxiety or fear, which we're both prone to. I finally found it, saved it and went to sleep.
It was our last night of normalcy! When we returned home the next day, we opened our front door to loud beeping and (since I was reading a book that takes place in the Amazon)… to the Amazon river: hot, humid and pouring rain. I guess, since the house was crying, the only thing I could do was cry. But, I was mostly in shock. We'd been away for eight days. I was ready to come home! But we had no home.
Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.
Eventually, we got ourselves a hotel that allowed pets. And we stayed in the small hotel room for two weeks (and over New Year's), until we could secure ourselves a rented house, and that's where we're living now — probably for the next 10-12 months, while we gut and rebuild our entire house.
Our house had flooded, it turns out, because of the eight-day blackout during that infamous Christmas ice storm. We did everything we could while we were away to ensure the pipes didn't freeze. But it was the radiator that burst in my bedroom. Boiling hot water poured out and started pumping through the ceilings, walls, when the furnace sensed the rad was losing water. We're probably very lucky we weren't there when it happened.
And here were are, one month later. Fairly settled. Fairly exhausted now that the adrenaline has worn off. We still have furniture to get, MY SHOES, my good clothes, etc. But friends, colleagues and family have helped us so much, and we've stayed in such good spirits.
It's taken her a while, but Betty White is finally back to her old sunny self!
Because in a way this is "something wonderful." As with most dark experiences, there's some light, you know? There are gifts. And there are many gifts here. As yoga teacher Monica Voss once said, when I was her student a few years ago, we need to "collapse the foundation so we can slowly rebuild." (Like Dyer's saying, this, too, has stuck with me.) Like a snake shedding its skin, there's so much renewal here, transformation, possibility, rebuilding…
And of course, there's humour in all of this. Ummm, did you read my last blog post? About every day being like Groundhog Day? Well, our entire routine has been turned UPSIDE DOWN. I went two weeks without my precious Vitamix, and we were far away from the kids' school, their friends, programs, my yoga. The routine and the things I knew I depended on for my family's (and my own) health and well-being… GONE.
It was the universe saying, "OK, you lost 50+ pounds, and you think you've got this parenting and lifestyle thing all figured out, do you? Well, we'll see about that!" What an insane challenge.
You just have to keep smiling. Indeed, things like this really cast into relief what matters: we're healthy, we're together — who cares about the rest.
And you just do whatever you can to stay healthy and sane for your family when the world turns upside down. So I kept doing yoga. No matter what, I woke up early and did my entire Ashtanga yoga practice every day. In the tiny hotel room, as the Rascal snored, in the dark… I rolled out my mat. And yoga definitely kept its end of the bargain.
How? It's simple:
There's nothing else to do but surrender to the moment.
You see, this style of yoga can be completely hellish. You're stuck there with 1.5 hours of mostly difficult poses ahead of you — plus, it's reeeeeally early in the morning, you're tired, Facebook is calling, gotta get the kids up and ready, so much to do… You can either freak out or surrender. So, you surrender. And you do it. You do the whole damn thing. And you don't think about how you feel about it. And what a gift that is to take with you throughout the day, throughout every experience, whatever the universe throws your way.
It sounds insane and intense, maybe. But it's a practice. And, like what Willem Dafoe has said, "I think you need a practice if you live in New York — at least I do."
The strength this practice gives me, both mentally and physically, is like nothing I've ever experienced. It 100% helped me get through the flood, and it helped me manage our family, keep things rolling and even continue working while Josh dealt with our living situation. That continuity, focus, strength, equanimity, surrender…
Ultimately, the feeling this whole experience has left me with is gratitude: to Josh, my kids, my family, friends and colleagues, to yoga and my yoga family, the universe and all our blessings.
Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen.
xo Haley-O
PS: Next week, my teacher says, I'm to add the commonly dreaded Kapotasana (don't try that at home!) to my practice. And I'm getting ready… Bring. It. On.
PPS: Look out for my personal article "Chaos Theory" in the March issue of Today's Parent Magazine. On stands in a couple of weeks! (I managed to slip some yoga in there, too, of course — because, you know, when you wake up every day to practise, come hell or HIGH WATER, a little obsession is inevitable… xo)]]>
They say time goes faster as you get older, and that it's based on a ratio — something like your age to the time period. So the length of a day is minuscule to me at my ripe old age, but long to my six-year-old:
1 day : 30+ years vs. 1 day : 6 years
Makes sense. Either that, or time is, as my daughter would say, literally speeding up.
The same thing happens between my yoga practices. (Sidenote: I'm all excited this morning because it's Saturday, and we don't traditionally practise on Saturdays — and after a holiday week of practising alone on my mat in the cold hall here, my body is aching and I need the break; but, Sunday fast approacheth….) Six days a week, I go to the yoga shala, sweat it out on the mat like a crazed wannabe contortionist, and it's done, and I'm relieved and proud of myself, and before you know it, it's 6 a.m. again, and I'm giving my friend Sergio the thumbs up before rolling out my mat again. And again. It's sooo Groundhog Day.
For 2014, I want to slow things down a bit. As a busy, Ashtangi, working mom, it's really tempting to just get through the week, get to Saturday — when I can rest, read novels, eat take-out, Staaaarbucks, stay in bed a bit longer. I'm not sure exactly how to slow down all the in-between, but I know it'll involve more savouring — moments, cuddles, steps taken from the car to the schoolyard, mouthfuls, breaths.
"Betty has a yellow tooth," R says, as he wakes poor Betty White from her slumber. Grrrr… J rubs her toes along the frame of my computer screen, watching as I type. My dad's here. Saturday morning Power Rangers is on. "Don't put that in your mouth, R."
Thanks to social media, we're all bloggers now. Many of you used to look at me like I was nuts when you learned I was a "mom blogger" back in 2006. But you're all blogging now. It's a bit much to sit down and craft an entire blog post; many of us old-school bloggers realize that now with the advent of microblogging, so we post way less on our blogs and blend in with the masses on Twitter and Facebook, Instagram, texting, emailing. We're all documenting our lives now and reading others' documentations, but is this savouring — or is it impulse?
I'm not sure. At the same time, though, weren't our parents documenting as much as they could in their own way? Whipping out the video cam whenever the chance came? We can't even view all those old video tapes anymore.
Me in my Olive Oyl tee and pigtails hugging Minnie Mouse, waving, "Hi, Mama!"
It's human nature to tell stories. We've been doing it since the daaaawn of tiiiime. The stories, and the way they're told, are what most define civilizations. Technology (aka Apple) has tapped into that innate human drive and exposed it, exploited it, monetized it. And it's awesome! But, like resisting that Starbucks grande-soy-no-water-tazo-chai (see how it rolls off the tongue?), we/I/Josh-O have to exercise conscious control around it.
That's also why I don't blog here so much. I practically live on the Internet, Twitter, Facebook all day as Writer/Editor/"Social Media Queen" at Today's Parent. It's my job. Storytelling, editing stories, tweeting, Facebooking stories. I need to unplug at the end of the day.
Still, as postmodern literature so expertly shows us, it's always about the storytelling. But, we need story, too. Life can't all just be about the telling.
There are two blue jays outside. We're wondering how they're surviving in the 20-below weather… "Mama! This snow looks like ice cream."
Six days a week (not including Saturday's, New Moon and Full Moon days — according to the tradition), I practise Ashtanga yoga. That's 1.5 hours of being, barefoot on a mat: no stories; no storytelling. I do this every morning like clockwork. Among other things, it preps me to be more present and aware throughout the day, to be here now, seeing through my own eyes, not those of prospective readers.
Maybe you get the same rewards jogging, meditating, drawing, playing hockey, reading poetry, birdwatching. It's important, I think.
Don't get me wrong, I love the storytelling. Am obsessed. But compulsive storytelling is so 2008! We need to be conscious storytellers, and above all, to live the story, too — savour the little moments… and be together without story.
Though I'm happy it's Saturday, my Sunday practice and back-to-work Monday loom on the horizon. But my daughter wants to sit with me — just be with me — and I'm going to savour it now.
Happy, healthy, savour-y 2014!
xo Haley-O
My dad took this photo today, and he's been telling all his friends I'm putting it on my site — he's very proud of me, and I'm so thankful for that. I'm also thankful that he shares his cottage with us, not only because it's a gift to be away from the city and surrounded by so much nature, but also because we get to spend more time with him and my mom.
It's a double rainbow and full of significance as I sit here, on Josh-O's computer, gazing out at the colourful landscape — a landscape painters dream of — here on Thanksgiving weekend at my parents' cottage.
As always, I have to preface this post with excuses as to why I haven't been here in several months. Instead of boring you with the usual stuff — aka busy, busy, busy and busy… also busy, like, very — I'll give my excuses in pictures. CHECKIT:
Since I don't write about the kids as much as I'd like to — they won't ALLOW me to, and I respect their wishes even if they're doing it just to be MEAN to their mama — I sometimes feel self-indulgent writing about and posting pictures of ME. But this is an inevitable offshoot of the blogging genre I love (and to which I'm forever indebted), so I might as well accept it.
I am, however, thankful for my renewed obsession with Ashtanga yoga, so I'm thinking I'll write a few posts on this amazing practice — i.e., why I spend so much of my life practising it and trying to embody its principles.
Lots of people ask me about how I lost FIFTY POUNDS, too, so I can write about that in another post, soon. Although…, a lot of that has to do with my daily yoga practice. Not only is it toning up my bod, but my mind feels so much more stable, centred and focused — and I can't stress enough how key that all is for weight loss. Every morning, when I hit the mat, I embark on a physical, emotional and psychological quest. That's a gift for a busy, xx-year-old mom. And I'm very thankful for that space I can give myself every day and for all the amazing people I'm on the Ashtanga journey with.
More self-indulgence for the road:
What I'm reading (when time permits, and now that I've deleted Candy Crush from my iPhone):
- The Signature of all Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert
- If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You, by Kelly Cutrone
- The Power of Ashtanga Yoga, by Kino MacGregor
What I'm eating:
– Lemon water with sprinkle of cayenne pepper and turmeric in the morning (curbs the cravings and starts off the day healthy, alkaline and with a spicy kick in the butt)
– Green tea
– Apple with almond butter (my favourite 4 p.m. snack)
– Friday is CHAI DAY! (Also Saturday…)
– Clean, whole foods — as Michael Pollan says, "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."
What I'm wearing:
– EXTRA SMALL, baby!
I'll blog again here SOON (sooner than last time, at least), promise. In the meantime, I'm thankful for all the things above — and so much more — that have been keeping me away from this space. Also, I'm totally thankful for you, and for the blogging community I've seen rally around friends of mine who've been in need of mass love lately (#rainbow), for this life, freedom, health and all our gifts. More of that all around the world, please, for the good of all…
What are you thankful for?
xo Haley-O
But here are some more truths. I'm writing this to you from the front seat of my parked car while I wait for the Monkey to finish her two-hour dance-show dress rehearsal (one of three this week), I've just gotten two emails from friends who want to make plans and I can't seem to schedule anything for at least another month, and I have a knot in my back the size of the Empire State Building and it's freaking me the hell out — and it hurts.
I've been at the Today's Parent office at odd times for (awesome but knot-in-back-causing) Twitter parties, and I've interviewed Jillian Michaels, and I've gone to Jillian Michaels' show (front-row-centre VIP seats, care of Jillian Michaels herself!), I've covered the red carpet at Hello! Canada Magazine's Canada's Most Beautiful party, and there's lots more to come.
Me and Jillian Michaels!
It's been such an exciting, busy, adventurous time. But I am utterly exhausted, and the kids, while awesome and hilarious, are not easy. They're currently banned from TV for a week for ripping the armrests off their carseats in Josh-O's beloved car. The silver lining is, of course, lots of this…
She made me take this picture of her little Lego world — for you. It's pretty fabulous. If there's one thing our little Monkey is, it's imaginative. Builder of worlds.
And if there's one thing her little brother is, it's Future Oscar Winner. Move over, Gary Busey!
The kid can laugh and cry crocodile tears at the same time! I've also never seen anyone get that into playing with toy cars. "How do you like THAT apple," one of his cars says to the other. "Psh, psh, POW!"
Gosh, I'm so used to blogging about other people all the time that I feel so narcissistic right now. While I'm at it, though, I guess I can tell you I've lost another 10 pounds since we last spoke. Wanna see?
Don't look at my toes!
Ahh, looks like it's time to pick the Monkey up from her dance rehearsal now. She'll run and jump into my arms when she sees me. At almost eight years old, she still does that. And I love that she still does that, but I'm only five feet tall…and, as I've been trying to convey here, a wee burnt out.
I'm going to spare you another promise that I'll blog again really really soon. But I hope you and your families are well.
xo Haley-O
Check me out opening Toronto's Disney on Ice show a few weeks ago on behalf of Today's Parent (I've lost a few more pounds since then, too) — what an honour!
Yes, I've finally lost the baby weight — something I've been trying to do pretty much since I started writing this blog (with a 10-month reprieve while I was preggers with the Rascal).
I'm pretty sure it took so long to lose the baby weight because, as I wrote at Today's Parent (and please forgive me for spilling my guts there rather than here — it's a bloggy balance I have yet to strike, clearly), having school-aged kids is awesome. The kids are amazingly more independent now, so they can entertain themselves more willingly when I'm riding the stationary bike or while I cook healthy food for us or while I count Weight Watchers points.
Yes, I'm on Weight Watchers (online — no in-person meetings for this introvert!). I chose this program because my friend Lolo (remember her?) was also on the diet, as well as several of my fabulous Today's Parent colleagues. It was helpful to text Lolo whenever I was in a bind, and to vent about plateaus, tweet and restrain from eating office treats with my colleagues. Mind you, I never had a problem with office treats, but at least I didn't have to refuse them alone anymore!
OK, I'm getting to the point where I'm wondering if I should publish this post or not. I seem to have left my blog legs at Today's Parent. I am sooo busy there right now. There's a lot of exciting stuff happening, and you'll see a lot more writing from me — not just about celebrities! I even just had an article about — gasp — pregnancy published in our Today's Parent Pregnancy magazine. I posted a photo of it on Facebook, if you want to check it out. I didn't realize how graphic it was at a certain point. I probably should have cut the photo off before the vagina and rectum part.
Anyway, I know a lot of you have been trying to lose weight with me all these years. So, here are the little trickies I've learned on my weight-loss journey.
1. Give yourself a treat day
Even Jillian Michaels recommends this — for her kids, but still, it works. My treat day is Saturday (woohoo, almost there!). So, if I have cravings during the week, I put the food away and think to myself, "You can have it Saturday!" I even recommended this strategy to a smoker friend of mine. I suggested she try to refrain from smoking all week and then smoke all she wants on Saturdays. It hasn't worked for her, alas, but you really have to want to quit, or to lose weight, to make it happen (see #2). Make sure you don't go overboard on treat day, though, or it does sabotage your efforts, and you will feel sick. I speak from experience.
2. Be wanting and ready to lose weight
When I was at my highest weight, back in September, I started feeling physically averse to my flab. It's sort of like when you really need a haircut, and, like, you need it now! I needed the fat off NOW. In the five years I've been trying to lose weight, I never had this fierce, physical desire or drive. It's definitely key. Maybe it involves getting to your highest weight — or, as they say, hitting rock bottom. It was a key factor for me.
3. Control your cravings and log your food intake
I've plateaued a couple of times during my weight-loss journey. To get through plateaus I had to really take a look at what I was eating, and what I was craving — that's easy to do if you're using a weight loss app, like Weight Watchers', which has a food log component (SO KEY). For the most part, I noticed, I started plateauing when I was eating too much bread or baked stuff: a homemade muffin for breakfast, crackers and hummus for lunch, bagel and peanut butter for dinner. It was all well within my daily points allowance, but not nutritious, and I was craving these foods. The more bread you eat, the more you want it. So, to lose the last 10 pounds or so, I've been limiting the bread and baked goods, and replacing some of those missing carbs with healthy whole grains, fruits and starchy vegetables. And, lo and behold, the weight peels off and I don't need spelt ShaSha cookies for dessert anymore.
4. Exercise
Biking, sweaty Ashtanga yoga, walking, kickboxing DVDs, snowshoeing, skating….
It's all about convenience. This means I crack open the yoga mat more often at home than at the studio (alas), and I bike in front of the TV while dinner's cooking, etc. The most I exercise (formally) is around 45 minutes, six days a week; I take a break on treat day. I also try to be as active as I can throughout the day, i.e., by taking the long route to the office washroom, parking a little farther from my destinations, walking instead of driving to the bank machine, tackling the dog, chasing the kids, etc.
4. Have a bite
Sometimes treats happen beyond "treat day." My kids know that Mama's treat day is Saturday. But I don't want them to see me being rigid. If we're presented with a cake, I'll have a bite, even a sliver. They just know that having a treat day helps me eat healthy most of the time — which is what their goal should be, too.
I'm sure I'll think of more tips after/if I press the "Publish" button here. But, let's talk about it in the comments…or Facebook or Twitter. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about Weight Watchers, weight loss, Betty White — who recently got groomed (in case you were wondering based on the photo above…).
She was still mad about getting groomed when I snapped this picture.
Alright, this was fun! We should do this more often. Truth is, I am SWAMPED at work, so it's hard to find the time. And this whole post is a symptom of a little procrastination problem I'm having this morning. But, I guess now I'm warmed up to write!
See you soon.
xo Haley-O
That's me doing a princess-style wave in the smooth, crystal-clear water of Magen's Bay in the stunning Caribbean island of St. Thomas. Yes, we went all out this year. I sort of figured we might as well, since the world was going to end in 2012, spend all our money on a trip of a lifetime. Josh, on the other hand, a firm believer in Science (capital S), knew no such thing would happen, and he treated us to a trip of a lifetime anyway. And I'd say we deserved it.
I can't even tell you how amazing this trip was. We started in Miami and took a Disney cruise to St. Martin/St. Maarten, St. Thomas, Castaway Cay (Disney's private island in the Bahamas) and then back to Miami, where we spent the day at the luxurious Trump Towers with relatives who were staying there.
Due to extreme tiredness — New Year's Eve last night was late, and we arrived at the Toronto airport at 1:30 a.m. the night before that — I don't have the energy to go into details except to say we made wonderful friends, saw gorgeous sights, enjoyed great live Disney shows, met lots of Disney characters (Goofy's my favourite!), ate way too much food, got some much-needed sun, swam, read, danced, relaxed, played, watched Pirates of the Caribbean under the Caribbean stars, SANG KARAOKE (the Monkey and I destroyed Bieber's "Baby, Baby" — let's just say, I am no Ludacris!) and more, more, more.
But I thought we'd better start the New Year off right here at Cheaty Monkey. So I am, hereby, officially putting the darkness that characterized a lot of 2012 behind us, and ushering in 2013, the beautiful.
One of the best lessons I learned on this trip — thanks in part to Disney and it's magical themes — was to look for the beauty. Obviously, you can't compare grey Toronto to the positively (here's a word I haven't used since a grade-eight creative writing assignment) pulchritudinous islands. But why focus on flaws all the time? There is always beauty, and I want, I need, to try to see it in all, or at least more, things.
And by beauty I mean happy thoughts (not anxious ones), glass half full, the good, the yes, the creativity, spirit, shine, art, love, abandon. I guess this is my big resolution for 2013.
So far, Day 1, I am kind of sucking. But I'm tired today, and this resolution will involve a huge paradigm shift, a transformation of my entire mindset, a sea change. So I'm taking it slow.
And when in doubt, though it's not close by, I'll look to the sea. I still feel it enveloping my body (which is now three pounds heavier thanks to too much exquisite food, but who cares — hakuna matata!). Despite it's clear blue warmth, I feel chills. The beauty so overwhelming. My mind shifts briefly to the dark side, the plastic, pollution, extinction. But I force myself to drop it, donate later, be here now. It's still as beautiful as it was when I was a kid, still as blue, salty, glassy, utterly awe-inspiring.
I guess the beauty of living in Toronto is that when you actually see the sea, you revel in it….
I miss you, Rita, Rick, Leena, Rami, Domano, Nadia, Putu, Deniz, Christian, Tina, Gunther (sorry I called you Thumper), Edmund, Gabby, Goofy, Pluto, Micky, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Ariel, Tiana, Peter Pan, Belle, the islands, the sea….
As they say on the Disney Wonder cruise ship (c/o Tinker Bell and friends), FAITH… TRUST… and PIXIE DUST!
xo Haley-O
"Do you know what's happenin'
in New York right now?"
"A statue breaked. It fell on the road.
And they glued it. And it's fixed."
When I asked him where he heard about the statue, he shrugged and said, I dreamed it.
I wish we could fix what's broken.
All my love…,
I work at home a couple of days a week now. It's great because I can finally get the solitude I need to nurture my neglected introverted self without indulging my inner hermit too, too much — since I work at the office the other three days a week. And it's great because I can take the kids for lunch, manage my time better, and wear Lululemons even more often (whether you think they're actual pants or not).
While I'd love to write here at Cheaty Monkey more often — in case you haven't noticed, every post I write here is vexed with apology, guilt, regret for not blogging as much as I used to — I've come to see my absence from this space not as a failure but as part of my personal evolution. The urge to write here just isn't there very often. The urge to share in this way just isn't there. Sad, but true.
So I release you, Self-Inflicted Pressure.
These days, I find myself exploring other writing urges that require a lot of time, silence and solitude — all of which are hard to come by when you have a five- and seven-year-old, and a bizarre little Maltese who has just made me lose my train of thought.
She's barking at a human and his dog outside. If she came face-to-face with them on the sidewalk, she'd hide between my legs, shaking, curly tail tucked straight down. She's like an Internet troll: she'd never say it to their faces; but place a screen in front of her, and she's fierce as a lion. Thankfully, I just discovered that if I say, "Want to go for a walk?" she'll stop barking immediately, curl up in a ball on the couch and cower. "Canine Walkophobia." It's not a real condition because the animal psychiatrists haven't discovered it yet, until right now.
I'm not sure where these new writing urges have come from, but I'm giving them time. Maybe they came from my kids, who are bursting with creativity at every turn. Just last night, before bed, the Monkey designed an "Indian Princess" gown out of my scarves and a necklace. I kid you not: this was Project Runway material. And at seven years old, she's the Editor-in-Chief of her own magazine, Today's Kids, which, among other things, cautions kids not to swing on chandeliers.
The Rascal bowls me over all the time with his boisterous imaginary play. Put him in a room with two little cars, and he'll be shouting in minutes, absorbed in the most intense race the world has ever seen.
I remember one class in particular when I was a student in the Visual Arts Program at York University. It was a class that focused on alternative arts, like Found and Performance art. I thought it was the silliest class ever at the time, but it's the one that seems to have resonated the most with me over the years. One of the assignments we had to do was a "found art" project: we were asked to put together a piece made up of found objects. I wasn't prepared at all for the assignment, for some reason, so I said, "WTF, I'll just put a bunch of stuff from around the studio in a pile and see what the class comes up with."
I ran around room in my flannel button-down, tight black tank and ripped jeans, piling chairs on top of one another, adorning them with paper weights, twigs, art supplies, cups, anything that I could find — the more baffling, the better — as the class watched. I stayed perfectly silent, insisting that the building of the piece was a fundamental part of the piece itself, and I made them guess. Everyone was, indeed, baffled. "What is it?" the professor asked. "You tell me."
So maybe that's where I go from here. I don't have a message, a theme, a place to start. But I have an urge to write fiction (this has surprised me too, believe me) — short fiction, to be precise, because it's the midpoint between my two favourite literary genres, poetry and the novel. I carry this urge with me wherever I go: a burning satchel on my hip, multicoloured like the rogue hacky sack that's taken up residence in my purse.
I'm not sure exactly when I'll be back here. Probably in a month, because that seems to be the pattern with my "Cheaty Monkey urge." Until then, I'll be figuring out what this "writing short fiction urge" is about by handwriting a lot in my notebook, going back to yoga (yes!) for that integral silence and solitude, and getting inspired by my kids' awesome creative bursts, my odd dog and toothless cat. And of course, I'll be writing up a storm at Todaysparent.com, and sharing little sparks and photos on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
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I was taking a course called "American Minority Literature," and the professor asked me to prepare a seminar on a new Asian American novel (the name of which I can't remember now). As usual, I waited until the night before to pull the seminar together, and I had nothing. Nothing. The annoying A+ student was about to sit in front of a room of expectant eyes and FAIL.
I was stuck. Sitting at my little desk by the wall, all I could think about was the classroom full of eyes I was about to face, the disappointed professor at the head of the large table, shaking his head. I sat there staring at the novel and then back at my blank screen, blinking cursor, ticking minutes. I had nothing.
Finally, I decided that I couldn't show up to my seminar with nothing, and that I'd better just write something. So I choked back my tears and wrote. I skimmed through the book for the fifteenth time, and I started simply writing crap. This is pretty much what it looked like:
The protagonist has black hair. She wears a yellow shirt. She is in a race. There is some wax. Corn in the fields…. Why is there all that wax?
Wax, corn, ears of corn. Ears. Labyrinth. Ears look like a labyrinth. Search. Identity. Asian American girl. Search for identity. YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
Just from writing what I like to call "CRAP," I completely solved the intricate symbolic puzzle that was this novel. I got an A+ on my presentation and its accompanying essay, and the professor suggested I submit the work for publication.
Fundamentally, though, in order to write crap in the first place, something very difficult and humbling had to shift for my perfectionist, high-achieving self: I had to dash all my high expectations, and I had to accept and be OK with the possibility of failure.
So here's what I advised in my session, "Get into the Habit: Developing a Writing Practice," at this year's Blissdom Canada Conference:
WRITE CRAP: Just write. It doesn't matter what you write; just do it. Preferably every day.
PICK THE GEMS OUT OF THE CRAP: Isn't this gorgeous? It usually takes up to two paragraphs, but sometimes as little as two sentences, of writing crap for the gems to emerge. When you feel stuck writing a blog post (about any subject), just start writing crap around it, and the gems will come.
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS WRITER'S BLOCK: If you feel blocked, just write — even if you're writing "I suck I suck I hate myself I can't write this is crap." If you feel extra blocked, check and see what you're actually physically looking at. Are you looking at the floor? A blank screen? Your thumbs? Not good if you're feeling stuck. GO OUTSIDE. Look at the sky, the moon. There's a universe of ideas out there.
BE OK WITH FAILING: You seriously can't be perfect all the time. Even I am not that amazing. (HA! Bygones.) Sometimes you're going to have to put out what you think is crap, especially if you blog a lot, like I do. And that's OK. It'll humble you. And that humbling is part of your writing process: it opens you up so that the good stuff is free to blossom — beyond the bounds of your typically critical, confidence-blocking ego. If what you write actually is total crap, then wait a while, get some distance, and revisit it before you publish. Sometimes all your crap needs is a good edit.
DASH YOUR EXPECTATIONS: If you approach your keyboard thinking, "I'm going to write the next great Canadian novel," you will most likely freeze. Or you'll wait, and you'll read everything you can on writing the next great Canadian novel. And then you'll never do it. So dash that expectation, dash the how-to books, and just write.
Developing Your Writing Practice
This blog, Cheaty Monkey, is a record of my writing practice. My mother often says I should turn it into a book. "I just know some publisher is going to snatch it up and make a book out of it," she often tells me. But I don't really think of it that way. This blog isn't a finished product by any means; it's very much a process.
I specifically started this blog to cultivate my writing practice. I had read enough Julia Cameron to know that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed to write every day. So I adopted her practice of "morning pages": I hand wrote three stream-of-consciousness pages every day. I later evolved that practice into publishing a blog post every weekday. Through that rigorous writing practice, I was able to find and develop my own voice, and to observe the crap-to-gem process (the same process I learned in that epiphanic graduate seminar) over and over again.
Based on these experiences, this is what I suggest all aspiring writers do:
WRITE EVERY DAY: Write at least three pages about anything and everything that comes to your mind. And don't underestimate the handwritten word! When I faced the task of writing about our family emergency last May, I knew I couldn't face a blank computer screen; my expectations for myself (to do justice to the event) were too great. So I sat in my car one day during my daughter's dance class, rolled the windows down, looked at the sky, took a deep breath, and I hand wrote the whole blog post on some blank pages at the back of a novel I had with me. Later, I was able to type it into my blog with some much-needed distance from it, and productively edit out the parts I felt were too personal, etc.
BLOG YOUR PRACTICE: If you put your practice online, you not only get all the benefits from your writing practice, but you also develop your online presence, and most importantly, you build a public portfolio. So, when you come face-to-face with, say…, the General Manager of a national parenting magazine, she knows your work, and your name. And she may just hire you!
In 2006, I started blogging my writing practice. I wrote every day, even if it meant writing at 3 a.m. between baby feedings. One day, in April 2010, I happened to meet the General Manager of Today's Parent Magazine's website at a Marks Work Warehouse blogger/media event. A few weeks later, I was hired as Writer/Editor. Look for me on the magazine masthead (yes, that still excites me)!
It's funny, around the time the book The Secret came out, I started writing down my career aspirations as part of my practice. I knew I wanted to be a writer, but I hadn't really articulated what I wanted to write. Until one day, and I believe I actually posted this somewhere in this blog, I wrote: "I want to write for a magazine like Chatelaine or Flare." And, what do you know? Down one hall from my desk at the Today's Parent office is Flare. And down the other hall is Chatelaine.
As the great yoga guru, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (and my inspiring yoga teacher after him) famously said, "Do your practice, and all is coming." Do your writing practice, and all is coming.
Suggested resources:
1. Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way.
2. Stephen King, On Writing.
3. Sarah Selecky's writing prompts on Twitter, @SarahSelecky.
4. Natalie Rosenberg, Writing Down the Bones.
5. Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
6. Twitter: Build blog posts out of (or around) your tweets. They're yours, so use them!
7. Instagram: Build blog posts out of your pretty, filtered pictures! It's a great visual record of your ideas.
8. Novels, short stories, poems, plays, blogs, articles. Read what you want to write!
Next week I'll share what my own writing practice is like now that I write all day at Today's Parent!


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As part of an Allied intervention force, Canada sent several contingents of troops to Russia in 1918 to support the government's "White" forces against the revolutionary "Reds."
Revolution and Civil War in Russia
By the end of 1917, Russian Tsar Nicholas II had been deposed by Bolshevik revolutionaries who then made a separate peace with Germany, plunging Russia into a bloody civil war. The "Reds," led by Vladimir Lenin, fought to hold power against "White" forces representing the recently deposed Romanov dynasty and other conservative and nationalist forces.
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In 1918, Tsarist Russia's former allies sent troops into northern Russia, around Murmansk and Archangel to support the "Whites," to guard supplies previously given on credit to the Tsarist government, and to assist in re-opening an eastern front against the Central Powers. The Canadian government agreed to send another 4,000 troops to assist British and other anti-Bolshevik troops in Siberia. Canada, like most Western countries, viewed Bolshevism as a long-term threat to their own governments but, in the short term, merely wanted Russia back in the war against Germany and Austria.
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Allied involvement in Siberia was short-lived and, ultimately, unsuccessful. In most areas, more numerous and highly motivated "Red" forces gradually gained the upper hand over the disorganized, badly led "Whites," while war weary Western governments lost interest in the fighting and brought home their troops. The Siberian Expeditionary Force had returned to Canada by June 1919, having suffered 24 casualties.
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Author and Title: Isabella Banks. Wooers and Winners: or, Under the Scars. A Yorkshire Story
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Best one yet
posted by MDGame (ALLENTOWN, PA) Jul 2, 2011
Member since Jan 2008
27 out of 28 gamers (96%) found this review helpful
the new graphics style (cel shading) is amazing the game is easily the prettiest Dynasty Warriors so far the robots look sweet
speaking of robots DWG3 has lots of them including some of my favorites like Unicorn and Deathscythe
the gameplay is similar to previous entries with few new features like summoning a partner
the stages are also different they are smaller..some people may dislike this but I thought its fine.
you can customize all of your gundams and add attachments and maxing out their stats . Also they fixed the annoying relationship system
The game is hard, harder than the previous games which is a big plus. You can't just mindlessly rush and button mash your way, you need to use some strategy like taking certain bases early and using gameplay mechanics like dashing efficiently. you should especially be careful with aces..
the story is decent..its not really the focus of the game but if you are a gundam enthusiast you will enjoy seeing all the characters from different series interact and of course the robots too ;) you will surely find one of your favs
overall this has to be the best DW game, tons of content, smooth and fun gameplay, and lots of gundams. If you liked DWG1 or DWG2 then I guarantee you will love this one. If you are a newcomer then give it a chance, this game is just fun..and if your get hooked it will keep you busy for a long time.
posted by Icedog (PORTSMOUTH, VA) Aug 2, 2011
Member since Jun 2011
5 out of 5 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
Some simalarities with DWG2:
1. basic "XY" fighting style
2. thruster controls
3. every mobile suit from DWG2
Some differences that DWG3 brings:
1. graphics: amped up to almost cgi standards (real life cartoon)
2. mobile suits: a new handful of MS/Gundams including Deathscythe :D
3. Lab: you can develop, customize, and even sell "plans" (you'll find out once you play lol)
4. missions: characters team up with unusual allies in at least 4 different story missions. There are also "history" missions where you play through some events that happend in the actual Gundam timeline.
I highly recomend getting if you are a Gundam/ Dynastry Warriors fan
Best Dynasty Warriors Gundam yet
posted by AoWdemon (BLUE SPRINGS, MO) Jul 27, 2011
Member since Jun 2007
5 out of 5 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
They basically took everything people hated from Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 and fixed it. The horrible friendship system is now much more manageable and isn't anywhere near as annoying. Buying Licenses and Skills is a lot less annoying. Changing mobile suit blueprints is no longer extremely annoying. Some of the movesets were upgraded. And they even added some fan favorites that people really wanted in like Duo Maxwell and Deathscythe. They also improved the AI a lot, they are much more aggressive and will be attacking almost all the time. And that's not just the enemy Ace Pilots.
One of the biggest improvements, which actually surprised me, was the change to cel-shaded graphics. This looks a lot closer to the anime and adds a lot to the general feel of the game.
A few other improvements include changing different fields on the battlefield to have different purposes like increasing the partner guage or disabling the enemies ability to respawn. And the Partner system where you select another pilot to be your partner (they all do many different things) which you can call in when you have one slot filled in the partner guage.
This game is infinitely better then the games before it and if you are a fan you cannot miss this game.
Really Bad
posted by sunikusu (TACOMA, WA) Oct 29, 2012
Member since Oct 2012
1 out of 1 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
This is for fans of the Gundam "Series" ONLY.
What's that? You don't know anything about the Gundam Franchise and it's characters? You like Dynasty Warriors and are looking for a fun beat-em-up? Well too bad friend.
Sure you get a Dynasty Warriors game... Sure you get loads of gundams' to fight with... but you DO NOT get a STORY. You literally start this game with NO INTRODUCTION whatsoever, assuming you know everything about the characters, their names, and what they're fighting for. And unless you're a die hard fan of the series, you'll be ripping your hair out like I did.
(( Try to imagine watching the show "LOST" midway through, and then trying to make sense of everything and all it's characters... yeah... it's like that. ))
Now you might be saying "I don't CARE about the story! This is DYNASTY WARRIORS GUNDAM! I just want to rip some robots to shreds!" and you will! But after 10 minutes have passed, and you realized you've done nothing but run around hitting enemies for no reason, you'll start resenting every minute this game is on. ( Granted, Dynasty Warriors is a repetitive franchise, but at LEAST every game before this gave you the courtesy of purpose. )
So yeah... don't get this game unless you REALLY want to see all your favorite gundam characters duke it out with hoards of enemies. If not, pass this one up and save the headache!
Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3
posted by Tyro123 (CITRUS HEIGHTS, CA) Jul 1, 2011
Member since Jul 2011
14 out of 22 gamers (64%) found this review helpful
This game,...
This game is endless hours of fun.
Seriously, open up a cold pepsi with some chips by your side and enjoy this game, and be ready to stay up late.
Positives: Everything. Ooohing and Aahing a lot.
Negatives: I went through all my sodas and snacks with this game.
Boring after a few hours....
posted by damianrock (DULUTH, GA) Jul 25, 2011
Member since Nov 2007
2 out of 6 gamers (33%) found this review helpful
D.W.G.3 bout darn time
posted by chrisjh (CLARKSVILLE, IA) Jul 5, 2011
Member since Jun 2006
1 out of 4 gamers (25%) found this review helpful
Very Good
Better than I hoped
posted by AngelicN9ne (HOXIE, KS) Dec 17, 2014
Member since Dec 2014
Beautiful Game!
posted by VickersFamily (CINCINNATI, OH) May 4, 2014
Member since May 2014
Introduction to Gundam
posted by RPGojira (WILLIAMSVILLE, NY) Apr 23, 2014
Member since Apr 2014
Very Good
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3..Epic, in short bursts
posted by ShadowMark (ROSENDALE, NY) Mar 5, 2014
Member since Feb 2014
Didn't work
posted by rom11 (SAN DIEGO, CA) Dec 29, 2013
Member since Dec 2013
DWG3 is awsome!
posted by lee6787 (YOUNGSTOWN, OH) Feb 11, 2013
Member since Nov 2012
posted by bevannlewi (CLEVELAND, OH) Oct 16, 2012
Member since Dec 2009
Boring, that is all
posted by Plasmawarrior (SAN ANTONIO, TX) Sep 4, 2012
Member since Mar 2012
The story mode is split into many parts, but I found myself going no-where with them fast. I often found myself playing in the same area during one string of character events, a problem I didn't have with any other Warriors Series game. I remember playing though the same stage 3 times in a row before finding another one.
The graphics and the music however are almost too good. I loved how the game breaks apart enemies when they go down, and the music blends both space opera like music into a rock-and-roll blend. The voice acting is ok, but some parts don't have voices in the story, while others do. Odd to me being that I'm use to hearing a voice though pretty much EVERYTHING that's said in a Warriors game.
Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 is NOT the same as the past games, and that's the problem: It's the same in and off itself, meaning repeative besides just controls. The game needed way more original content to it to work. It's fine for some, but even the hard core Dynasty Warriors fan will be bored with it fast.
Above Average
It is ok
posted by DragonLord53 (LATROBE, PA) Jul 14, 2012
Member since Jul 2012
Above Average
Better, but still lacking.
posted by Aidra (GREENFIELD, OH) Jun 22, 2012
Member since Jun 2012
I've played the previous to Gundam entries in the DW series, and this one is a step in the right direction for sure.
BUT... there are some major areas in this game where it just falls flat. Compared to Dynasty Warriors (the core series) and even Samurai Warriors, the fundamentals of the game are mind numbingly bland. I'll ellaborate in the pros and cons
-Most of your favorite mobile suits are in the game.
-The cell shaded graphics on the mobile suits are great!
-The animations are pretty to watch.
-A butt load of content to play through, and unlock
-Ridiculous story that fails to capture your attention
-Almost half of the mobile suits are worthless and have very few attacks/abilities.
-The maps are absolutely wretched. The textures are low quality, as well as they all look pretty much the same. Go to this field, kill mindless suits, capture field. It's ALWAYS the same, save for the random ace pilots that it throws into the mix, that are almost equally as brainless.
-The customization of your suits starts out exciting, but in the end you don't really feel like you have a lot of choices.
-I love leveling up and unlocking attacks/abilites, but you do so too quickly in this game. In less than 2 hours you can have all your mobile suits attacks unlocked, and from there on its the same combo's over and over until you tire and pick another suit to mix things up.
All in all, this is another DW game. If you're a fan of hack and slash and love Gundam, give it a try. If you love the DW series, give it a try. Otherwise, don't waste your time and find something else to play.
If you love Gundam, have I got a deal for you...
posted by Natiow59 (CHICAGO, IL) Feb 21, 2012
Member since Jun 2007
That said, this game is worth at least a prolonged rent.
Pro: Better graphics than ever, more attempt at new gameplay mechanics, more characters, more suits, more attempt at plot.
Con: Repetitive, more characters, more suits, voice acting and writing, inexplicable design choices.
Overall, I like this game. As a huge Gundam and Dynasty Warriors fan, I look forward to each new release, even if just to play it for a little while before some bigger and better comes along. Having played this game for a long time both solo and co-op, I would recommend it as a solid rental. The game kept some of my interest for a long time, which means it can give you a lot of hours of entertainment. Worth $60? Maybe not, but not a worthless game.
I very much enjoyed the addition of new characters and mission parameters in this game. While some new mechanics don't work out so well (Operators, unimportant new characters, characters with only generic suits), the new twists are more than enough to bring this game home. I would highly suggest this to fans, especially if you have a friend to co-op with.
That said, there is not a whole lot that is new here. Many new characters are essentially worthless. Many are only useful as assist partners, and only after lengthy investments in their development. This can and will get tedious. Getting new suits is sometimes a pain, as is new characters. Often you will like maybe only a handful of characters, and feel content just to play around with them and then get bored.
But don't lose hope! This game has a lot to offer, and if you are willing to forgive its flaws, you can enjoy the fullest of the game in the way it was meant, as a fan. Oh, and also this game is unintentionally hilarious often, which warrants mention as it actually improves the game fo
best gundam ever should make another
posted by tito805 Jan 13, 2012
Greatest one yet
posted by OokamiRyouko (ANDERSON, SC) Dec 22, 2011
Member since Apr 2011
Not the best Dynasty Warriors Game
posted by mamajama72 (PLAINFIELD, IL) Nov 28, 2011
Member since Oct 2011
My Review
posted by RpgGamergirl13 (RICHMOND, IN) Nov 15, 2011
Member since Jul 2011
On the edge.
posted by Leyero (PITTSBURGH, PA) Oct 31, 2011
Member since Jun 2011
Very Good
Excellent Game
posted by Sethamphetamine (BRADENTON, FL) Oct 30, 2011
Member since Oct 2011
Very Good
Ridiculous but awesome...
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NY1's Budd Mishkin continues his series, "One On 1," with a profile of a woman who's achieved plenty of success in the magazine world: the editorial director of Latina magazine, Betty Cortina.
Betty Cortina's work revolves around words. But who she is? That's all about math.
"I'm 100 percent American and 100 percent Cuban, and if that math doesn't make any sense to anybody, or if you're not Latina, it makes total sense to me," she says.
Cortina is the editorial director of Latina magazine, where everything is seen through the lens of the experience of living in two cultures.
"The toggle between two cultures is a reality for Latina as a magazine, and for every Hispanic woman who was either born here in America, first generation or second generation, or raised here," she says.
The 34-year-old Cortina came to Latina in 2001 after stints at People magazine, People Espanol, Entertainment Weekly, and then as one of the founding editors of Oprah Winfrey's magazine, O.
"A lot of people did say, ÎAre you kidding me? You're leaving O? It's the most successful magazine,' and blah, blah, blah," she says. "I wanted to do something that woke me up in the morning and I really, really wanted to go to work."
Cortina was born in Chicago and raised in Miami by parents who left Cuba 40 years ago. Part of the lure of Latina is working with and writing for mostly women who have a shared experience, such as being the first in your family to go to college, or to have a career rather than a job.
"It's the experience of being the first in your family, the experience of being 12 years old and reading bank statement to your mom because she can't read it in English, and you are 12 but you've been given the responsibility to translate it because you're the only one who speaks English in the house," she says.
The articles in Latina look a lot like articles in other magazines for women, but Cortina says the writing is always from a Hispanic point of view. The faces look familiar too, but Cortina claims these are not your typical celebrity articles.
"We treat them very differently. It's not about gossip — it's about they are a role model," she says. "Jennifer Lopez is a role model for a lot of little girls who grew up in the Bronx. They live on blocks not unlike where Jennifer lived and go to schools not unlike where Jennifer went to school. And Jennifer had a dream, worked really hard and did it. So that says if that's possible for Jennifer, it's possible for me."
While she may not have the visibility of Jennifer Lopez, Cortina is in a high profile job filled with interviews and deadlines and travel. But there's always a balancing act between how to thrive in a modern world while never straying from the traditions of her family and the old country.
"When I take a stage or do an interview or do anything, I feel like I am most definitely not alone up there," she says. "I am standing on a lot of people's shoulders who came before me, and sharing the stage with a lot of other women who came from backgrounds just like mine."
Betty Cortina works in the heart of the most diverse city in America, but she grew up in Miami, and everyone in her neighborhood was the same.
"[It was] solidly Cuban. Not even Hispanic, but solidly Cuban," she says. "If you look at my high school yearbook, there are rows and rows of brunettes and one little blond, a bottle blond."
And from her parents there was talk, plenty of talk, about the homeland they left.
"The mangoes were sweeter, the sun was brighter, the moon was bigger, and everything was better in Cuba," she says. "Except that there was a revolution and everything changed, and the one thing that wasn't better was that they lost their freedom."
Early on Cortina felt the push and pull of her parents' sacrifice to immigrate here. Her desire to go to college was encouraged, even required. But leave home to go away to school? That they weren't so crazy about.
"That was quite a spirited discussion that day, and that was one of the first moments that I really struggled with my upbringing, my sense of tradition," she says.
She left Miami for the University of Florida in Gainesville, thinking she'd had it with what she calls "this Cuban thing." But after experiencing being a minority for the first time, she started holding Cuban nights at her apartment.
"I realized for a second I tried to run away from who I was, and wound up right back where I started," she says.
After college, she worked at the Miami Herald, and then got a job with People magazine in Los Angeles. There was little time for adjustment. Cortina was immediately sent to Corpus Christi, Texas, to cover the aftermath of the death of Tejano singing sensation Selena.
"If it had at all occurred to me the enormity of that story, I wouldn't have been able to perform at all," she says. "It was my very first story for People magazine."
Cortina's article became part of a special issue of People. It was so popular, Selena's sister called to try to get a few copies.
"I was like, ÎOh my god, of course. You shouldn't have to go out and buy them,'" she says. "She said, ÎNo, I went to the store to go buy it, but the thing is they're not getting to the store. They're taking them off the trucks and selling them on the street for like $50.'"
The intensity of the reaction to the special issue led People magazine to start a new edition in Spanish, which brought Cortina to New York, and eventually to Latina.
"I never would have dreamed that that story would have ultimately launched a magazine career for me and really ultimately led me to sit here," she says. "I fully believe that's what happened."
Cortina likens working at Latina to "coming home." She's done some television, and has had offers to do more.
For now, she's happy running the type of magazine that helps her link her modern life with her family's past.
"You grow up with that sense of history, of, ÎWe came here for you and the success and dreams and the reputation of your whole family rests squarely on your shoulders, in that sense,'" she says. "You better believe that when I'm confronted with something I hear a voice. I can't let them down."
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Professionals and stakeholders use various acronyms in various fields such as early intervention, technology, rehabilitation, education, interpreting as well as recognized acronyms of national and Washington State organizations. ODHH has prepared a list of acronyms as a resource when providing services to deaf, hard of hearing and deaf-blind.
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Why should you contribute to opensource ?
- Do what you like to do.
Everybody wants to work on "cool" technology and products. In reality most of you might be working on some maintenance project.
So what it is that stops you from doing cool things. You can join any opensource project and start committing code to the project. It gives you wonderful opportunity to do something worthwhile on technology of your choice and interact with the innovators and very insightful people.
- Do the real stuff.
Richard Stallman has brilliantly summarised the GNU project in one single sentence, "Free as in thought" . His brilliance not only lies in writing the gcc compiler and allied utilities, but also in his ability to get a whole community mobilised on this project. His work is even more admirable since he did it when there was no Google and Internet was affordable only to defense research or the universities.
Lot of us write code or test, but the life cycle ends there. In most of the cases there is no interaction with the client. Opensource projects are real deal. When you get involved in some form or the other, there would feedback coming from the community and the users, which decides the course of action.
If you write code in opensource domain, there is a big community which would define the course of action and effectively making a complete product out of your idea. This process is shapes you as a good engineer.
- Learn from the best:
In high school we were taught human anatomy through a series of experiments on dissecting rats. Same goes for software. If you want to be a great software engineer (not just a programmer), dissecting the code would always be a great learning experience. What better way is there than to start dissecting the opensource code. Some of the opensource projects are the top ranked in their respective domains, like Linux, Apache server, Eclipse, GCC, etc. All this code is available to you for free, you can try it out, make changes, post bugs, get community support. Overall a great learning experience.
Ok ! So why should I be doing this everything for free ?
There are tons of resume which tells the employer about your contact information, academia, programming expertise, projects you've worked on and other such stuff. Well the employer cannot verify any of this unless there is face to face meeting. If you have already done some work in opensource project, it speaks volumes about your skills and eventually reflects in your pay package.
Same logic applies for business or freelancers.
How to contribute to opensource then ?
Contribution to opensource need not mean that you should sit a dark room like Neo and churn out code endlessly. You can contribute in following ways.
- You can try out the code the on your machine and point out what problems you faced on the mailing list. There might be some genuine problem in the code, or you might have missed some configuration setting or followed wrong process. In either cases you would be refining the code. Either the authors/ contributors would fix a bug, or a wiki would be posted in detail how to do the stuff correctly.
- You can add comments to the code. Let say you are scanning the hello world code and you didn't understand what -mabi=aapcs meant. If you dig in and find out what it actually meant you can add your comments there. They would be helpful for the people who might want to build a layer on top of the code.
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UK Sport Chair Baroness Sue Campbell has today (1 Nov) been announced as the first keynote speaker for the 2012 World Class Performance Conference.
Having been at the forefront of British high performance sport for almost a decade as Chair of UK Sport, Baroness Campbell will address delegates on the opening night of the 12th annual Conference.
This year the three-day event will be held at the Queens Hotel in Leeds from 26-28 November and will be the first opportunity for those working with world class athletes in the UK to collectively reflect on and celebrate the experiences of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Baroness Campbell will provide a personal reflection on her nine years as Chair of UK Sport, recalling the political and funding challenges encountered throughout her career to date and tracking how this journey has led to the development of a world leading high performance system.
She said: "It is always an honour to speak at the World Class Performance Conference, where some of the brightest minds in elite sport unite each year.
"This year will be no exception, and with the glorious summer of sport to reflect upon, I will be looking back at the years preceding London 2012, what led us to this point and the lessons we learned along the way.
"The momentous decision taken by the Government to maintain funding for the next Olympic and Paralympic cycle means we can now look to the future with some confidence, and I will use the Conference as an opportunity to share my hopes for Rio and beyond."
Baroness Sue Campbell CBE was initially appointed as Reform Chair of UK Sport in September 2003 for an 18-month term, succeeding Sir Rodney Walker. A former England netball international, lecturer at the University of Loughborough and Chief Executive of the National Coaching Foundation, Sue is also Chair of the Youth Sport Trust. She received an MBE in 1991 and a CBE in 2003 and was appointed to the House of Lords to serve as a Crossbench Peer in 2008.


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I got a short term contract writing some software for Nike. Since their World Headquarters is literally ½ mile from my house, and I haven't worked in 2 months, I took it. They have a beautiful campus as the following picture attests to.
On the morning of the second day, my manager says he wants to speak with me. I am thinking, how much trouble could I have caused in one day. Done it before, so I just went into his office with an open mind.
We exchanged some niceties and debriefed a bit. Then he says to me, "what is wrong with your shoes?" I am thinking that they are rather dusty from the two consecutive weekends I just spent at the Firearms Academy of Seattle learning how to shoot moving targets in the "A" zone while I am moving, and a few other drills. But I just say, "huh?"
"What brand are they?" he continues.
"Uh, Reebok."
"Exactly my point." How did he know? Anyways, he continues with how passionate Nike employees are about wearing Nike stuff. He then relates a story about a friend who came to visit him on campus wearing non-Nike shoes. He said that he entered the elevator on the top floor and on the next floor down, three other people got in. The friend later explained that he barely got out of the elevator alive. The manager then smiled a sly little smile. I smiled back. I then asked what I should do. He gave me a pass to the Nike employee store and "requested" that I buy a new pair of shoes.
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2013 Victoria Spoken Word Festival
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The third annual Victoria Spoken Word Festival is counting down to launch with performances by more than a dozen spoken word artists from across Canada and brand-new events.
The Victoria Spoken Word Festival brings together twelve emerging spoken word artists from across Canada to create and perform innovative and inspiring spoken word. In addition to performances by the festival ensemble, the festival features Victorias own Dave Morris, Poet of Honour Johnny MacRae and international spoken word celebrity Mighty Mike McGee. The festival also includes a public workshop where Victorians itching to launch into spoken word orbit can learn from the best.
New this year is In the Future, a special evening featuring two full-length spoken word shows. Missie Peters, M-Award-winning poet, will be performing her new solo spoken word show, Wheres My Flying Car?! that she toured in her silver jumpsuit on the Fringe circuit this summer. Fresh from their international tour, 2 Dope Boys, also known as local favourites shayne avec i grec and Johnny MacRae, will be performing their psychedelic talk opera Anthropocalypse, complete with a performance of the little known folk tradition from the Cadillac Mountains of waterbowling.
VICTORIA SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL - Feb 27-March 3, 2013
Wednesday, Feb 27: In the Future featuring Missie Peters and 2 Dope Boys, 8pm Intrepid Theatre $10
Thursday, February 28: Tongues of Fire presents The Instant Slam, 7:30pm Solstice Cafe $5
Friday, March 1: Festival Ensemble Showcase with Dave Morris, 8pm Intrepid Theatre $10
Saturday, March 2: Finale: Objects in Space, with Johnny MacRae, 8pm Intrepid Theatre $10
Sunday, March 3: Public Workshop, with Johnny MacRae, 1-4pm Intrepid Theatre $25
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"Working abroad fully immerses you in the culture of your host country. This immersion causes you to see other people differently, not only people from a foreign country but from your own. You learn to see the uniqueness and importance of a person's culture. Additionally, developing the ability to work and live in a foreign country shows that you can adapt and excel in any situation, which is a vital life skill as well as an appealing attribute in the eyes of employers."
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Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Volpert Briel about Weidmüller's quality management and customer projects with high-quality products.
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The Centrum Industrial IT was inaugurated and the Research Award has been awarded for the first time.
The multi-function tool HTX-IE-POF for the assembly of SC-RJ connectors as well as new connectors and special tools for photovoltaic systems have been launched.
Torsten Baumann, QM Director, explains in an interview how Weidmüller is continuously working to improve its high quality standards and to develop other potential benefits.
A behind the scenes look at material data management, new product development and the laboratory shows how quality is achieved at Weidmüller.
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We are all going to die - latest.
Warming will 'wipe out billions' - Scotsman.com
Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet's population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.
The Times has Bryan Appleyard revealing how how he has been saved from his apostasy of scepticism and how to fight the deniers.
EuRef provides a roundup of other MSM articles and of course links to the mighty Booker who I think can safely be said to be under-impressed by the scientists behind the alarmism.