Going Into the Weekend, Vulnerable and Writing. . .

    My title really says it all, but since I want to offer you something this Friday afternoon, I’m including some photos from the last week, and a quick summary of what I’m working…

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Bear With Me . . .

First of all, thank you so much for your warm, encouraging, thoughtful and generous responses to my last post.  It’s one of the most personal pieces I’ve ever posted on the blog, also one of…

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Canada Day Musings: What Mom Taught Me

Canada Day– July 1st, the celebration of the confederation of the first four provinces in 1867 —  has always been a problematic day for many Canadians.  Chinese-Canadians, for example, have referred to it as Humiliation…

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Random Observations during a Heat Wave

A week ago, we were at our son and daughter-in-law’s house in a city across the Salish Sea where the weather was just heating up, still pleasantly. . . . Trying to resolve some marital…

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Home From Away. . .

Sorry for the “radio silence,” but we were finally able to visit our son’s family on Vancouver Island. Ten months since our last visit .  .  . . All the feels, as the kids say …

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