New Sweater, new socks . . .

It’s been rather satisfying, lately, to be finishing off a number of knitting projects — here’s a pair of socks destined for my Pilates instructor who suffers from chilblains, especially when she comes back from…

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Time to Blossom Again

Above, a photo of a Duchess of Edinburgh clematis bud ready to blossom in the September sun. Below, another that has already opened its pretty white petals. This is a rare second blossoming for this…

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Mothers at the Shore . . .

The image below is taken from IndigoAlison’sFlickr series, Surf Widows at St. Ives. It’s a brilliant collection of photos Alison took while on vacation this year — she has painstakingly recorded mother after mother after…

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Acceptance as/or Re-Invention

I wrote this post some time ago, but then let the draft sit, almost deleting it once or twice. Then I saw Duchesse’s post today and her query about how we might be re-inventing ourselves…

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That Summer in Paris

Fiction-writing often seems to be a ventriloquist’s game, the writingwriter throwing a voice into a narrator with varying degrees of credibility. Perhaps as with ventiloquism, we are swayed to find the act more convincing if…

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Copyright

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 And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own.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.