Postcard from A Busy Solo Traveller in Edinburgh

Quick update — I arrived in Edinburgh Tuesday evening — overnight flight from Vancouver to London Heathrow (which, thanks to the time difference, landed me smack in the middle of an afternoon) connected easily (well,…

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What to Wear When Walking to the Ballet . . . Comfortable Pizzaz?

 First of all, thanks so much for your kind and encouraging comments on my last post. It’s always awkward to write something like that because I don’t want to be seen as fishing, as trying…

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Blogging Directions as a Retiree Adjusts. . .

Later next week, I expect I’ll be sharing my impressions of Edinburgh with you — what to blog about is always so much easier to decide when travelling.  Right now,  though,  I’m feeling considerable ambivalence…

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Blogging and Murals, My (Visible) Eye In/On the World . . .

As I struggle, some days, to know whether it’s worth continuing to write in this space, I go back to some of the reasons I’m doing so. There has been so much emphasis, especially here…

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What I’m Wearing: To Please Myself

 The post I had planned for this morning wasn’t really an “outfit post.” Instead, I was using the playful exhortation on this t-shirt as an entry-point to tell you about my efforts lately to figure…

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