Armchair Travel: Reading About Sicily . . .

The second page in my new Watercolour Sketchbook — the first boasts my hand-drawn (and hence, more suggestive than accurate 😉 of Sicily.  . . We’re planning a family meet-up week there next spring, and…

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Paris Packing Prep — What I’m Wearing, These Days. . .

 First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers — although as far I can gather from Social Media, few of you have time to be reading blogs during the mad prep of your day.…

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Murals Here, Murals There. . .

After Friday’s post with those images of the mural I photographed last June in Bordeaux, I did a bit more research and found this video of “The Making Of”— which shows both the in-studio work…

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Bordeaux Beauty Remembered — Street Art and Slowing Down and Other Sundry Messages

My puttering toward creative traction this week (see previous post) has included sorting through the “random abundance” of digital photos in my files (“ridiculous abundance” might be a more fitting description).  I was doing this…

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Mystery, Travel, Romance, Engaging Literary Fiction, and a KidLit title — A Mixed Bag for you

 Back again, to share a few more messy pages from my year’s Reading Journal — I see now that for next year’s journal (this one was the first handwritten record after years of tracking my…

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