It turns out that mom now has to have chemo, followed by radiation, as the cancer has been a bit more aggressive/invasive than we’d hoped. However, she has good medical support and much support at…
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I’m having to remind myself today that I believe in “Blogging Without Obligations,” but my personality makes that a challenge — I start feeling uncomfortable when I’ve gone more than three or four days, yet…
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We have been living in freezing fog for over a week now. Yesterday, fortunate enough to take in a reading by the visiting Saanich poet Philip Kevin Paul, I was mesmerized not only by the…
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First, thanks to those of you who wished my mom and my family well as she went through surgery and the following treatment period. Surgery went well on Friday, only the second of its laparoscopically-guided…
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We spotted this charmingly cheery graffiti near some guerrilla gardening along the railroad tracks not far from Vancouver’s Granville Island back in November, the day before Nola was born actually. Cheery seems just the ticket…
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