Report from Ottawa

Here we are, all four generations of us! Taken the night before I left Vancouver. Blogging more than I expected to here, thanks to this new little Netbook I packed along (at just 2 pounds!)…

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Retreat is a shady term

Department retreat today, so I’ll just leave you with these photos from the weekend — I love dappled shade! As for work retreats, although I appreciate the need to get away from the everyday interruptions…

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Growing Words

With two papers to present at conferences at the end of May and early June, I’m finally trying to get words on paper (well, on the screen actually) after research, reading, note-taking, outlining, and all…

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Nothing to see here . . . no, really!

I posted over heretoday, so I’m afraid I’ll just be doing a quick lick and a promise here. Indeed, it’s been rather short shrift ’round here this week, hasn’t it, what with the dental woes…

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Cheering Me On — Flowers and Poems and Celebrations

Some more garden cheer, in the form of the wonderfully fragrant mahonia japonica. Other cheerful things: The reading I organized went very well. Although I wish even more hockey and poetry fans could have heard…

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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 And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own.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.