Some more garden cheer, in the form of the wonderfully fragrant mahonia japonica. Other cheerful things: The reading I organized went very well. Although I wish even more hockey and poetry fans could have heard…
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‘member I was being all chipper yesterday, going on about the richness of life, blah, blah, sincere blah? Well, I’m still aiming at that, but omg, it’s tough when I keep sneezing and coughing and…
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That’s green enough for St. Patrick’s day, don’t you think? That’s a ribena sanguinea ‘White Icicles’ bud getting ready to burst into bloom. I was curious to see when it did that last year, and…
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Got your attention? Thought I could risk a catchier title! Last week I re-read Stephen Henighan’s The Streets of Winter in preparation for teaching it in my 4th-year urban Canadian fiction class. Once again, noting…
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It has been so awful here, weather-wise. Yes, last week’s snow finally melted off the ground, and I’m no longer worried about the pipes to the cottage freezing at the nighttime -7 lows, but the…
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