Back-Alley Wanderings in Urban Vancouver

 I am recovering from a first-ever Urinary Tract Infection. Horridly uncomfortable, as many of you will already know. So very grateful for modern medicine and that I live in a country with very accessible health-care:…

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New Shoes and an Old Skirt: a Friday Short and Sweet Post

It’s been a short but intensely busy week here (we have a project, my guy and I), and I have a busy weekend ahead (babysitting Two Littles tomorrow morning; a girlfriend arriving tomorrow afternoon for…

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A Few Good Mysteries, Belatedly. . .

Ay-yi-yi! I’ve just found this unfinished draft sitting in my files, waiting patiently for completion. I started it weeks ago. . . .Let me add a few titles to it and press “publish.” I seem…

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And In the Condo Terrace Garden — Report On Our First Summer

You might remember that this past April, I shared my intention to track my new (container) garden’s growth via regular posting here, to turn the pages of its story with you looking over my shoulder.…

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Thanksgiving In the City, Reflections . . .

Today is officially Canadian Thanksgiving (here’s a fascinating article about the respective histories of the American and the Canadian feast, in light of the indigenous celebrations that preceded contact) but like many Canadians, our family…

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