Congrats to Rawi Hage — Canadian winner of the IMPAC

I’m so pleased to read that Rawi Hage was awardedthe IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (which The Globe and Mail calls ‘the world’s most lucrative literary prize for a single work of English fiction.’ I read…

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More Paris Windows

I love Tara’s Paris window photographs, a regular feature over at ParisParfait. I had looked forward to meeting her in Paris, but it turned out that she was travelling west almost exactly the same time…

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Happy Father’s Day

La Belette Rouge had a great post the other day entitled “What I Am Doing this Weekend since my Father Is Dead,” and I commented there that My dad’s been gone 8 years this summer…

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You say it’s your birthday . . .

Just for Thomas, if I had unlimited funds . . . I think the first Sunday Bestpost I ever read and commented on was one in which Thomas spoke of wanting eventually to buy a…

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Images of Paris

As happy as I am to be back in my own home (we woke on Portugal time this morning, so were easily able to catch the 6:30 a.m. ferry back to Nanaimo and then hope…

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