I’m really missing my daughter Megan this week although it’s not the first, but rather the third, Christmas she’s been away: once in Costa Rica; last year, living in Montreal, she visited Toronto at Christmas;…
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Our Christmas Eve brunch hosted by Zach and Joey in their Victoria apartment was lovely. Paul and I drove down the afternoon before and stayed at the hotel Zach works in, taking advantage of the…
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As has been the case for the last ten or so years (since my youngest hit his teens and began to sleep in), I am the first one up on Christmas morning. I feel a…
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Here are some pictures from our evening with my mom at the Van Dusen Gardens’ Festival of Lights last week. After battling our way across town and back to pick mom up in Burnaby, we…
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In my teens, I was impatient when my mother would say that a good coat was important, that it made a first impression. For me, a coat was something to keep me warm and dry…
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