blog visits

I’m feeling more than a bit anxious because tomorrow Thomas over at Sunday Best is going to post a piece he asked me to write as part of a series on men’s fashion magazines. Every…

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Nature’s colours

It occurs to me that if I were a decent photographer, I could post a photo a day of the view from my front deck — ready-made variations on a theme. I took these on…

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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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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.