Dressing to defy the gloom

It’s cool, drab, and rainy this morning, and with last weekend’s time change, the dark nights hit earlier; as we move toward the solstice, over the next six weeks, the days are shorter and shorter,…

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Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow — term moves along

(Image of Lady Macbeth borrowed fromWest Bay Opera site) Week 10 of a 13-week term, and I feel as if I’ve turned the corner, as I always feel at this point. While I still have…

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Weekend fun and a Blog Link or Two

Another fun but busy weekend in Vancouver. Dinner in Friday night, thanks to Pater — and he’d picked up Disc 3 of Season 2, Heroes. Ah, the vegging night! Perfect. Saturday, we each had a…

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No Costume? The Horror!

Not much Hallowe’en happening ’round here today, although as I write this I’m thinking I could surely do something a bit extravagant (is that like “a little pregnant”?) — not quite a costume, ’cause I’m…

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Hallowe’en and abject horror

I think this might be the first Hallowe’en ever that I have neither dressed up nor carved a pumpkin (above is last year’s) nor bought candy to hand out to cute little costumed-up people (rarely…

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