I’ve been doing very well with Holds I’ve placed on books from the Vancouver Public Library. A bit too well, really, and I’m currently reading madly through a Pico Iyer travel memoir (five reading days…
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It’s going to take me a few days to put together that follow-up post about the Italian style exhibition I visited last week and my continuing cogitation on Sustainable Style and Slow Fashion and the…
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I’m coming out of a busy few days — house guest Thursday/Friday; rigorous gym workout Friday morning; our Italian class Saturday morning, extended through lunch these days for conversation in English and rudimentary Italian with…
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My granddaughter chose this card — by my good friend Sandy, who keeps me well supplied — to send to her cousin in Italy. She chose it because she recognized our current reality here where…
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The third book I read this year was Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister the Serial Killer. Braithwaite is a Nigerian writer who has spent considerable time in England (primary school, boarding school, and then her degrees…
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