I love the way the weather has blasted a rust stencil into the old Doukhobor church bench I picked up years ago to celebrate having successfully passed my doctoral comprehensives. The stencil itself was bought…
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Perhaps not surprisingly, we still feel a bit tired and breathless around here. Behind the scenes, you won’t know, we’ve spent the past couple of months with our small apartment — pied-à-terre in the city…
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Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to, as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…
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We had a wonderful wedding weekend (above, brother and sister on their way to the excitement, showing how Casual Glamour is done). I’ll try to roll out a few photos as the week progresses, but…
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We’ve been planting on the terrace — dreaming of it someday being festooned with fragrant honeysuckle so that we might be constantly pestered by hummingbirdds. . . . 1. The first thing I would have…
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