Two Impossible Things Before Breakfast

 I have reason to believe this blog will look very different, very soon. Yes, I had thought that might be so earlier this week, but I under-estimated how many small steps there were that required…

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Bringing the Outdoors In . . . In to my Sketch Journal, that is. . .

  I told you I’d be back soon to share a couple of pages from my sketchbook, and here I am. . .  I’ve been getting outside more often lately, thanks in part to the…

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Buona Pasquetta — Just Another Manic Pandemic Easter Monday

 I don’t know about you, but Easter was weird for me, for the second year in a row (and that we’re numbering weird Easters now is also, you know, weird. Unsettling. Turns out that I…

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East Van, Baby, That’s My ‘Hood

 The promised walk through my neighbourhood, one day last week as my iPhone counted the steps toward the 10,000 daily steps of my March fitness challenge.  We had a series of several days that began…

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Painting Our Way into a (Quiet Reading) Corner

Can you believe that we’re coming up to five years of city life? Truly, it seems just yesterday — and/but also another lifetime — that I was in my February garden and on the beach…

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