Broken Forest, our new painting

A few weeks ago, I told you about a weekend of culture on our little island, and showed you a painting we’d put up in our livingroom to see whether we wanted to buy it.…

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marking and its antidotes

I’m becoming convinced that protracted marking sessions effect bio-chemical changes which make a person appear very, very cranky. Imagine reading essays which begin “Historical aspects and events have never been so important as ever before”…

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For everything else, there’s . . .

My son sent this tally to me by e-mail after our family gathering this weekend. Because he and Joey have a tough time getting the weekends off, they planned to fly harbour to harbour after…

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several happy things and a bit of too-bad

I have a few things to show you. First, although I said last week that I wasn’t going to hold myself to Wednesday shoe-blogging anymore, I think you’ll agree that being caught in Vancouver during…

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Merry Christmas and Farewell Megan and Rob!

Does anything say early-Christmas-dinner-in-a-crowded-apartment like homemade mincemeat tarts, Sorels stacked in the doorway, and handknits worn goofily to cook in? Read on and see . . . I didn’t take any pictures of the snowy…

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Copyright

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