Commuting, Island Style

Just in case you think it’s all beautiful beachfront views around here, punctuated byrelaxing getaways in surprisingly restful urban settings with their own gorgeous outlooks, I thought you might like to see what our daily commute…

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Just Another Visible Monday . . .

Again, I thought I wouldn’t find time for joining theVisible Monday party, but again, it just seemed too much fun to resist. After all, there’s Patti, showing the way in her newly thrifted Louis Vuitton…

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Carson and Grief

Is it really true? Did I last post here on October 19th? Almost a month ago? By then, I had finished Anne Carson’s Nox, a moving, puzzling, challenging, and powerful work — which I suppose…

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Mini Getaway and some MaterPride

My son’s convocation from University of Victoria was last Thursday, and we were there to watch him walk across the stage, kneel before the Chancellor, re-place his hat in that ages-old academic ritual. Very moving,…

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Street Scenes, Open Doors, Paris

Paris: blocks away from the whimsical graffiti I featured inmy weekend post is this much more aggressive array, reflecting an area (in the 20th) where gentrification is displacing what seems to have been housing more…

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