I’m in Vancouver this weekend, where signs of the impending Olympics are everywhere. Most of these signs reflecct the staggering security budget: helicopters buzz overhead and rigid-hull inflatables zip along the waters in Coal Harbour.…
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Last summer, I quoted from a BC Bookworld review of Shannon Stratton’s essay “Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft and Free Time,” published in Volume III of Craft Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse, edited by…
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I wrote this post some time ago, but then let the draft sit, almost deleting it once or twice. Then I saw Duchesse’s post today and her query about how we might be re-inventing ourselves…
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Right now, it’s beautiful back on our little island, the beach, the waves, the garden, the hammock . . . But I’m still in Vancouver where there are exhibits (Rembrandt/Vermeer at the Vanc’r Art Gallery),…
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Pater asked me the other day if I thought I was enjoying life as much as I could or should. He’d been asking himself that same question, wondering whether he was appreciating the passing moments…
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