Summer Fun! Two Ways to Get/Stay Fit in the City

 Excuse the title, my tongue-in-cheek effort to follow Bloglovin’s advice about Attracting More Followers. The stock advice always seems to include exclamation marks and How-to and Numbers. . What’s really going on here is that…

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Five Things Friday

1. Sunshine! Much expediting beachwalks with visiting friends (see my IG for a photo). Like my Californian visitors last week, L, coming from a sweltering-at-38-degrees Bordeaux, claimed she would have been quite content with rain…

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Reality Bites — Or How I’m Getting My Groove Back. . .

After three wonderful days of visiting with Sue and Lisa — which included a delightful catch-up coffee with the inspiring Melanie of Bag and a Beret–, the reality of jet lag; of the fatiguing effects…

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Blogger Meetup: Visitors from California. . .

If you’re curious about the out-of-town guests whose company Pater and I have enjoyed this week. . . .  It’s eight years now since Sue/Une Femme and I firstmet, here in Vancouver, and more than…

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Chez Moi, Encore. . . . Home Again, Jet-Lagged Again!

4:14 a.m., and I’ve been up for an hour; jetlag, if I may be so blunt, is a bitch.  But she’s a bitch who, if managed well, can lead to productivity. So. My morning pages…

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