On the cusp of retirement, we’ve begun thinking about where we might be living five years from now. I suspect many of us must be mulling over possible changes — Duchesse at Passage des Perles…
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Around the time my Mom died, two cousins I’d barely got to know set up a Facebook page for the extended family, published a family history going back several hundred years to our French and…
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See that solid bank of fog just off the next island? It rolled our way by midday Friday, hiding the sunshine we had enjoyed for a few hours. It settled in thickly, wrapping us up…
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Home sick today, mostly walloped by the emotions stirred up by a celebration of my mother-in-law’s life, held yesterday in our little Vancouver apartment. A very informal, but very heartfelt memorial, all of our children…
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L. to R., Natalie, of Tormaresca Wines, my daughter-in-law J, husband P, son Z, and son-in-law A. My blogging task this week — let’s call it a late New Year’s Resolution, shall we? — was…
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