Boys’ Club

It’s a couple of weeks since I took these photos of my new vest in action. Then today Karen, Of a Certain Age,posted about pulling menswear looks into real life, and I thought it was…

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a little light reading? NoT!

I hope to get to a very brief review, soon, of Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn, a wonderfully slow-and-careful examination of em/immigration that compares in some interesting ways with my last book, Sebald’s The Emigrants. Have any…

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Better than Alright, These Kids!

About eighteen months ago, Thomas over at SundayBestposted a charming clip he’d made of teens busking on a Victoria Street, and he called the post “Spring Break: The Kids Are Alright.” (I tried to link…

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Bring it on, Fall!

I took the photo above several weeks ago, when the scene struck me as indicative of summer’s end, fall’s arrival, even though we were not there yet. The pleasure boaters were still motoring leisurely through…

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Happiness is . . . a New Sweater

I have so much I’d love to tell you, but I’m finding it very difficult to squeeze any writing minutes out of my day. So for now, here’s my finished Tangled Yoke Cardigan — I’m…

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