I’m making slow progress through the various piles of books “decorating” our house these days. But I won’t apologize for taking over a week to finish Anne Enright’s The Gathering. Last year’s Man Booker winner,…
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It’s been a while since there was anything remotely fashion-y or “what the mature woman is wearing” ’round here. Just too busy, and then when I get a minute, I fill it up right away…
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At the end of another teaching week, I’m exhausted again but this time with a mountain of marking to get through over the weekend — two of my classes wrote in-class essays this week so…
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Save for the green, of course, in the photo below, the colours in these two shots are very similar. I love how the late-September noon sun illuminates the redness of that cut log. Juxtaposing the…
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This one is more relevant to Canadian readers, but if you’re the least bit interested in our politics (we’re several weeks into a federal election campaign right now, with voting on October 14th) OR if…
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