As I mentioned the other day, Une Femme tagged me to participate in a meme, Lessons in Hindsight. Thinking about this has been an interesting endeavour, especially since I have mixed feelings about the value…
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In addition to yesterday’s tidbits from Nancy Milford’s Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, here’s a deliciously cheeky line from a letter she wrote to her publishers. Having been drawing advances from…
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I realize I never got ’round to writing about the opera last weekend, and now I have to admit that’s probably not going to happen — except to say that it was a “double bill”…
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In Vancouver for the weekend again. No Pilates this week so I was able to catch the ferry after work yesterday. Paul had dinner ready for me and then stayed out of my way while…
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You’d never know it from my empty comments box in the post below, but it’s been non-stop visitors around here today, as readers following the conversation about “mutton dressed as lamb” click on a link…
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