Family, Life, and Rich Repercussions

Wonderful visit with my daughter, her partner, and their four-week-old daughter on the weekend. We (well, Pater) fed them, and we insisted they sleep or rest or go for a walk while we held the…

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Another Monday, transitions

Waiting at the top of the parkade ramp for the gate to close behind me, I noted how dark it was, still, at 5:25. In theory, my decision to take an early ferry back Monday…

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What’s Navy and Gold and Feeling very Busy . . .

Classes are going well, so far. I generally enjoy the first few weeks, the honeymoon stage, I sometimes call it, before they get their first assignments marked, returned… A late October event I’m responsible for…

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Turning over that September Leaf — New Routines. . . .

Today, the first day back to school, I defiantly pulled on my white jeans — gasp! post-Labour-Day white — and quickly found a good reason for the rule. Dirt roads + rain + bicycle =…

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Weekend of Transition. . . . Back to School

 LittleGirl heads home this morning, and I’ll miss having her here. The long earnest chats about who said what to whom — whether in that afternoon’s sailing camp or in some movie I’m getting a…

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