I’ve finally finished my Chevron scarf (pattern from Last-Minute Gifts), thank goodness — the knitting seemed to go on and on forever. Not surprisingly, I suppose, given that this Handmaiden Cashmere (sooo yummy!) is a…
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Last week, I finally read the manuscript of a colleague’s novel. I’ve had it on my office desk since last fall, having mentioned to her that I’d like to read it after hearing she’d had…
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Our family weekend was fun: we had some good visits over meals, caught up with everyone’s news, had a few laughs, a few squabbles, and apparently way too many showers, dishwasher loads, and toilet flushes…
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When we lived in Prince Rupert (on BC’s north coast), and our kids were small, family and friends would make the long drive or fly up from the Vancouver area to visit. Then we moved…
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I’ve been reading Lewis Hyde’s scholarly study of gift economies and their relation to the artist, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, and finding it utterly absorbing. Although this is not directly…
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