My daughter texted me from Rome yesterday to say “Gosh, what a nice postbut particularly nice are the comments!!!! I love your readers!” A great big Thank You from both Rhiannon and me for your…
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It was the sweetest little wedding, and before she flew back to Italy with her family, my daughter approved a few photos I could show you. They decided not to have professional photographs taken, and…
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I love the way the weather has blasted a rust stencil into the old Doukhobor church bench I picked up years ago to celebrate having successfully passed my doctoral comprehensives. The stencil itself was bought…
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Perhaps not surprisingly, we still feel a bit tired and breathless around here. Behind the scenes, you won’t know, we’ve spent the past couple of months with our small apartment — pied-à-terre in the city…
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Yes, I have trouble keeping this blog going — I’d say that it’s an example of a lifelong trend to, as I’ve often been warned from adolescence onward, “spread myself too thin.” But I’m going…
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