Happy New Year
The days around Christmas were marked around here by an absolutely silly amount of rainfall — it just kept pounding down, grey and soggy. Then came stormy winds, still accompanied with bursts of rain, but…
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Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs
Lorrie Moore’s short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here” has long been one of my favourite stories, so when her new novel was published, I was eager to read it. It doesn’t…
View PostClassic with a Twist, the Christmas Version?
Let me just sneak in a last few favourite images from Christmas before the year closes. . . here’s my son “helping” Nola set up the Brio train set of his (and his sisters’) childhood.…
View PostWhat I Wore, Festive Dinner with Sisters
My “What I Wore” feature has been sadly neglected for the past several weeks — and now that my research leave has begun, I’m afraid my sartorial range may be quite constrained. But here’s a…
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They’ve all gone home, and we’re left with our books, a quiet house, turkey soup simmering on the stove, and some lovely memories of Christmas 2010. One highlight was my eldest daughter saying that her…
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