Materfamilias Writes

Thanksgiving, Covid-Style, with a Harvest Poetry twist. . .

Thanksgiving, Covid-Style, with a Harvest Poetry twist. . .

First of all let me acknowledge, this Canadian Thanksgiving Day, that I have so much to be grateful for. Paul and I have just returned from a three-day getaway into the interior of our province,…

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September Reading: So Much Goodness!

September Reading: So Much Goodness!

Rainy and windy here in Vancouver today. Perfect weather for curling up with a book, and I have a few good candidates (currently reading Iza’s Ballad by Margo Szabó and Marc E. Agronin’s The End of…

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Dressing for Happiness, in Troubled Times. . .

Dressing for Happiness, in Troubled Times. . .

It’s been a busy week: had one daughter’s family over for dinner; went for a long walk in a small forest with another’s; spent one morning cycling to a favourite wetlands park with my husband;…

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Quick Getaway, With Kayaks (and a bit of Fear that snuck into my packing). . .

Quick Getaway, With Kayaks (and a bit of Fear that snuck into my packing). . .

We were away most of this last week — barely two hours driving, another 40 minutes on a ferry, and we were at the edge of an inlet, our backs against a treed rocky hillside,…

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Autumn’s Here. . .

Autumn’s Here. . .

A hearty rain is currently scrubbing our Vancouver skies clean of the smoke that choked us all week. . . So no complaints about our Wet Coast weather, at least not for a few days. …

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