An Unlikely Road Trip: Sara Baume’s Literary Debut

I’d make my apologies for the lapse since last posting, but by now, this is what you’ve come to expect here. My mother used to insist that an apology was only as good as the…

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November, the Busy Stuff and the Breath-giving Joy

 We’re busy in the summer, don’t you find, because the weather entices us to get outside and do. . . but then the weather changes, and we’re tending to stay inside, so we begin to…

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A November Friday, Taking Stock

With only six weeks left in the year (Whoa!), especially since I’ll be travelling most of the last month, this seems a good time for a bit of stock-taking, and I love the template Pip…

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What I Wore for a Thought-Provoking Date Night

 Last Friday, we walked a couple of kilometres to the cinema for a showing of Ai WeiWei’s magnificent documentary, Human Flow. Have any of you watched it yet? Devastating and beautiful and humbling and inspiring…

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An Urban Condo Garden, Rooftop-Style, in November. . . .

 Shall we take a quick tour of my Fall Garden? The photos were taken over the past three or four weeks, as the days got shorter and colder — that Japanese maple above was golden…

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