Category: Story Time Tuesdays

Vintage

I’ve had a lot of clothes in my life. High school was the height of my shopping addiction. Luckily for my purse I was into second hand stores at the time. Every weekend I’d go to thrift shops and vintage stores rummaging for the best/strangest/cheapest items I could find. I

What kind of a name is that?

I have a very unusual last name. Unusual, at least, for my country. People are always asking me where it’s from. When I last searched Canada 411 for Bynoe, I got only six pages of results. That’s about 60 listed Bynoes in a country of 34 million or 0.00017 %

Name Game

For this week’s Story Time Tuesday I’m writing stories about my name. I was inspired by this song that I’m hoping to play at a Dance Dance Party Party soon. What it all means When I was five years old, or maybe six, my mother took me with her to

Story Time Tuesday

For this week’s Story Time Tuesday I’ve been a bit pressed for time so here’s a poem/ list thingy. It’s sticking to the true Sara Bynoe style; angsty, silly and about boys. This will most likely get updated as time goes on. Deal Breakers Refusing to leave Calgary Getting drunk

The Secret of My “Success”

A month ago I went to an experimental theatre show where the performers called members of the audience on their cell phones and asked them personal questions. Most of the questions asked were fun things like, “Do you have a boyfriend?” “Is he a good kisser?” “When were you last

A Poem

My friend Michelle is doing a writers residency in Argentina- lucky girl!  The theme she is working on is ‘Home.’ She asked me to write a piece for it and I figured since I’ve been quasi-homeless since I left London this would be an appropriate subject for me to write

The Grass

I was sitting on the Skytrain yesterday behind a Chinese woman with a perm. As I looked at her black hair curling against its nature I thought about how so many people want what they don’t have. Many of us are perpetually stuck in a ‘grass is always greener on

Recipe for a Lost Wallet

This is a short film of a poem I wrote based on something that happened few years ago. It is directed, edited and photographed by my great and talented friend Kim Buikema. We filmed this short in South London one Sunday in the summer of 2009. I’d like to thank

Story Time Tuesday – The Poetry of My Commute

I recently started a new job. It’s a job-job complete with a desk, office hours, a direct phone number, paper work and a commute. There is a novelty to this new life and the fact that I’ve avoided it for so long. I am an alien creature meandering through silly

Lost and Found

London is a city with over 7.5 million residents and I believe that most of them are good and honest people. This is because during the year I lived there I experienced some extreme good will. People were so kind that my faith in humanity was completely renewed. In late

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