I’m paraphrasing Zoom at Sea, a wonderful children’s book by Tim Wynne-Jones. I can’t look up the exact quotation ’cause the book’s long gone to the bookshelves of my grown-up daughter, but I think I’m…
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Yes, the title’s a bit odd, but by the end of this post you’ll see that it’s fitting, if very, very contrived. So finally, here he is, in all his nude glory,Michael Hermesh’ssculpture, The Baggage…
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I’ve really felt as if I were on vacation this last week (and I am, but I wasn’t feeling it so much earlier). On Monday a friend came over and we had a long relaxed…
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So last time you saw this sweater, I was frustrated that I’d have to redo part of it. But the process turned out not to be so bad after all and it really makes for…
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it’s already warm this morning and it’s supposed to go to 36. Not a day to “go into town” as our quaint island-speak puts it, meaning take our small passenger-only ferry (really, as my nieces…
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