Our family weekend was fun: we had some good visits over meals, caught up with everyone’s news, had a few laughs, a few squabbles, and apparently way too many showers, dishwasher loads, and toilet flushes…
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When we lived in Prince Rupert (on BC’s north coast), and our kids were small, family and friends would make the long drive or fly up from the Vancouver area to visit. Then we moved…
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I’ve been reading Lewis Hyde’s scholarly study of gift economies and their relation to the artist, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, and finding it utterly absorbing. Although this is not directly…
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Ever, ever so long ago, IndigoAlison tagged me for theSeven Songs of Summer Meme. But I had so much to tell you about my travels and then I was doing summer things and then I…
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Well, you could eat here, but we didn’t. Somehow, amusing though it might be, the name “Good Meat” doesn’t seem overly promising (if you have to say it . . . ) But we passed…
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