An Anniversary Peek
35 years ago, on a sunny afternoon, Pater and I tied the marital knot in front of family and friends, celebrating afterwards in a lovely reception at my parents’ home. Afterwards, in a borrowed car…
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Hit the Pause Button!
Classes start late this year — September 8th is our first day back although, of course, we’ve all been doing prep and attending meetings for weeks by then. The class schedule means an abrupt change…
View PostMovie-Watching and Procrastination
I’ve been promising myself for weeks and/or months that I’d catch up on listing movies we/ve seen — failing to do so seems occasionally to result in renting a movie a second time, only realizing…
View PostA Trio of Girls and Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans
I had hoped to write about Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans, but one of my daughters (who counts Toews’ A Complicated Kindness among her favourites) has borrowed it. Without pages to turn, passages to look…
View PostA Loud Bang and Some Cheering Music
Did you hear that loud bang? That was my summer, coming to a crashing halt. Yesterday I was hanging out in the hammock, reading (admittedly, I was reading a heavily footnoted academic tome, but still).…
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