Back-to-school shoes
A colleague (at another university) was telling me this summer that she and her female teaching cohort advise their new academic sisters to wear some kind of a “power heel” for their first forays at…
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Bon voyage, my friend (in your new sweater)
I finished the red mohair sweater I made (from this Dropps pattern) for my friendAlison who will be leaving this week for a year-long sailing adventure with her husband Kim. They’ll sail down the Pacific…
View PostRandom Between the Weekends
Photo of Haida home and totem poles on Museum grounds, seen from inside the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Since we’re almost at the weekend again, and there are still a few things I’d like to…
View PostPoetry: Fernando Pessoa
Photo: Lisboans visit the two-week Book Festival set up near the Gulbenkian Museum last June. Yesterday afternoon, as a lovely antidote to the first department meeting of this new term, the Poetry Reading Group comprising…
View PostGirlcook and Materfamilias Eating in Toronto
Let me hand the mike over to my daughter, Megan, also known as Girlcook when she comments and as Dramatic Sprout when she blogs. She’s so much more knowledgeable about food (what with being a…
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