Hangin’ Out in the Sunshine
After last week’s emotional events, this past weekend was a time for relaxing and taking stock of our good fortune. Back on the island, the heat was more tolerable, enjoyable even. We ran before it…
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Tiger, tiger . . .
Pater’s recent enjoyment of Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies guided his choice, in an airport bookstore several weeks ago, of Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker-winning, The White Tiger, and I’m so glad that was the case.…
View PostHeat and Life and Death and Love — the whole damn thing, indeed!
When daughter #2 was about 9 or 10, I was French-braiding her hair one morning before school. She was kneeling on the carpet so that I could reach the top of her head easily, and…
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Pater had a very nice birthday yesterday even though he had to work — I got over on an early ferry, early enough that I got downtown Vancouver before 11 in time to pick out…
View PostLucky me — Happy Birthday, Pater
This good-looking guy has a birthday today, so I’m leaving our island home where there’s a breeze off the water and I can swim to cool off (I went in twice yesterday — it was…
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