Yellow for Hope: What I’m Wearing

I don’t wear yellow well, so I rarely wear it willingly.  I’ve made exceptions for the yellow shirt I earned in the2014 Vancouver International Marathon — you can see me hiking up a very big…

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Five Things on a Sunny Spring Friday

Well, we’ll see if I make it to Five Things.  1. These beautiful apple blossoms on the Scarlet Sentinel tree opened this week in our terrace garden, thanks to some very generous sunshine.  Besides being…

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Bread-Making, Old-School, Artisan, and Beginner’s Luck . . .

I asked my maternal grandmother once what her childhood Christmasses were like, whether, on the farm in a deep Manitoba cold just into the 20th century, she had received many, or any, gifts. Sometimes an…

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Introducing. . .

 Our waiting is over. Sorry to have been coy in my earlier post the; story wasn’t primarily mine to tell.  But Tuesday morning we had the privilege of bringing this Little Girl to the hospital…

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Say It With Flowers: Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all of you! I’m illustrating my sentiments with a  photo of a vase left by my mother — who died five years ago yesterday,  on Easter Sunday — filled with a few…

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