Five Things Friday — Nana-and-Nola-style

As I might have mentioned, we have our 6-year-old granddaughter staying with us this week. She’s lovely, very easy to get along with, polite, cooperative, funny, happy with a trip to get groceries or a…

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Announcing…

An emotional week, bookended by deaths: a friend Monday, a beloved 90-year-old uncle today. And yesterday afternoon we welcomed our newest grandchild, watched our daughter-in-law nurse her baby, our son swaddling and rocking… Pure Joy…

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Our Vancouver Weekends, Family-Style — More Steps to Retirement

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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Joy, Delivered by Phone. . . .

 I LOVE modern communications technology! Until I retire at the end of this calendar year, I can’t spend as much time with my family as I’d like. Meanwhile, though, my daughters are wonderful about sending…

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A (nut) Cracking Night at the Ballet!

Yesterday evening, in the concession lineup with her Mom during the intermission at The Goh Ballet’s The Nutcracker. She really was that happy, absolutely smitten ( even more than when she saw it last year).…

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