Materfamilias Writes

Books to Get the Year Launched

Books to Get the Year Launched

With January already over, time to record a few titles. For train and plane travel at the beginning of the year, I downloaded Sara Blaedel’s Only One Life from the Vancouver Public Library. It’s the second…

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Of Books and Popcorn and Trips to Sunshine and . . . Broken Teeth? Ah, Not Again!

Of Books and Popcorn and Trips to Sunshine and . . . Broken Teeth? Ah, Not Again!

Yesterday afternoon, after a productive morning writing and working out in our condo gym (slowly getting back to my program after that prolonged cold/illness), I microwaved a bowl of popcorn and got comfy on the…

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City Life and Wider Spaces

City Life and Wider Spaces

 I’m finally feeling well enough to have started putting my fitness regime back in place, but with the nearly constant rain we’ve had, most of the moving has happened indoors. I woke up Friday morning…

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Flying Solo. . . Flexing my Independent Travel Muscles at a Certain Age

Flying Solo. . . Flexing my Independent Travel Muscles at a Certain Age

I’m not completely sure what demographic we form together, you readers and I. I sometimes think we might be a tad more homogeneous than I’d like (love me some diversity), and I’m pretty sure we…

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What I Wore — Opera Night and a Tale of Valentine’s Day Woe (Compensated Woe ;-)

What I Wore — Opera Night and a Tale of Valentine’s Day Woe (Compensated Woe ;-)

 We hopped a ferry yesterday to see some Beloveds we haven’t hugged for months — just a quick visit, and we’ll hop back today, so only time to share some photos with you, and we’ll…

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