Summer reds

Paterfamilias is on an icebreaker wending his way through “a sea of light,” as he put it — the surrounding ice, after all, reflects the sunlight all twenty-four hours of the day. Oddly, while I’m…

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Happy Birthday, Megan!

It’s this one’s birthday again, but she’s far away from me, in Toronto, where she’s cooking in the kitchens of a rather chic restaurant at an architectural hotspot (Torontonians such as Duchesse will probably guess,…

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Minor Knitting Tragedy — but we’re still celebrating here

Before you start reading today’s post, can I ask if you know about my Anniversary contest? Please go leave a commentat the contest post where you have a chance to win a book. Can you…

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Happy Birthday, Adam! and a Happy Independence Day too!

Here are my daughter and her partner, checking out the bald eagles on their visit this weekend. Good friends in high school, they’ve been living together for 12 or so years now, and married for…

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more weekend stuff

Even more weekend stuff: Sunday morning, crêpes at our favourite spot, then we checked out the KRAZY exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery. This goes way beyond comic book art, and is well worth the…

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Copyright

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