Summer guests
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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Lewis Hyde’s The Gift
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…
View PostSeven Songs of Summer
Ever, ever so long ago, IndigoAlison tagged me for theSeven Songs of Summer Meme. But I had so much to tell you about my travels and then I was doing summer things and then I…
View PostEating in Paris, Part II
Well, you could eat here, but we didn’t. Somehow, amusing though it might be, the name “Good Meat” doesn’t seem overly promising (if you have to say it . . . ) But we passed…
View PostStories in Perfume
I’m reading Chandler Burr’s The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York and I’ve come across an image I love. Céline Ellena, the daughter of parfumeur Jean-Claude Ellena, is…
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