Back-Alley Walks with Art and Book News

One of my blog intentions for 2021 was to duplicate here my Books Read This Month post from Materfamilias Reads,  I had intended to try this doubled-posting approach until the end of the year and…

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Happy Weekend! From my new blog. . .

Just a quick post to wish you a Happy Weekend — a long weekend here in Canada and perhaps where you are as well. For Canadians, Monday is Victoria Day, a reminder of our colonial…

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Walking Into My New Blog-Home

Thank you for the enthusiastic and encouraging comments about this beautiful new WordPress version of my Blog. And a huge thank-you to Phil at pipdig for making the move so stress-free and efficient. For other…

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A Few Good Books I Read Last Month . . .

Another good reading month, was April.  It seems that no amount of busy-ness (Italian classes, fitness workouts, family life, knitting and sketching and bread-making, FaceTime connections with friends, kayaking and cycling and tramping through forests…

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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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Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.