Materfamilias Writes

Cooking up a Window or Two . . . Paris- Style . . .

Cooking up a Window or Two . . . Paris- Style . . .

My daughter, son-in-law, and grand-daughter Harriet landed in London early Monday morning; our son and daughter-in-law leave for Paris at the end of the week. The two little families will meet up in Bordeaux for…

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Happiness Check-in . . .

Happiness Check-in . . .

Soon to head off on their belated honeymoon, my son and daughter-in-law leaving their beach ceremony last summer — I love this shot, taken on the path between our place and our neighbours’. . .…

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Excellent Guests. . . . and Why I Run! And Why I Won’t. . .

Excellent Guests. . . . and Why I Run! And Why I Won’t. . .

My daughter and granddaughter came for a visit last Friday, and my son-in-law joined us on Saturday. Sunday morning, I headed out for my run after cuddling and laughing with little Harriet. Each loop of…

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Divertissements . . . .

Divertissements . . . .

 Sometimes one just has to look determinedly in a happy direction. . . .These miniature irises, for example, are good for the eye to focus on, even shielded as they’ve had to be, against the…

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This and That — Life-Writing and Fiction . . .

This and That — Life-Writing and Fiction . . .

A potpourri as I try to tidy up the bookshelves at the change of year: Reading Gary Snyder’s essay collection, The Practice of the Wild, I kept recalling Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and there was something more…

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