Keith Richards’ Life: what a lively romp of a book. I’m not sure how much Richards wrote and how much “co-writer” James Fox is responsible for. There are indications throughout, though, in excerpts from Richards’…
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Finally home yesterday afternoon after almost two weeks away, thinking I’d stop in to my Pilates class on the way, having missed so many, but the weather turned nasty — thick sloppy snow swirling wetly…
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In 2006, some of you might remember hearing, hurricane-force winds took down one thousand (yes, 1000!) trees in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The devastation was visually and emotionally stunning to us on the West Coast. In…
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Magnolia buds against a background of snow These poor croci seem both bedraggled and affronted . . . And here’s an example of why Vancouver’s pretense at being a palm-growing locale is somewhat ridiculous. Somewhat?…
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Right now, there are four or five centimetres of fresh snow on the railings of our apartment balcony, and freezing rain making a mess of the sidewalk — and the only boots here are unlined…
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