Materfamilias Writes

Beach Stories, Back in the City. . .

Beach Stories, Back in the City. . .

Back in the city, under a layer of the smoke that’s covering our province, I’m nonetheless quite happily occupied, enjoying such aspects of city life as watching spectacular fireworks from our balcony, walking to beachside…

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Duck, Duck, Goose: Making Mistakes, Having Fun. . . .

Duck, Duck, Goose: Making Mistakes, Having Fun. . . .

Celebrating mistakes was the subject of a post I wrote a year ago, focused on some of my sketching efforts but extending outward from that to think about doing things we’re not necessarily good at…

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Wednesday: Pictures and a Few Words . . . How to Look at Hydrangeas

Wednesday: Pictures and a Few Words . . . How to Look at Hydrangeas

 I know that the colour of hydrangeas has much to do with the pH balance of the soil  but I’ve no idea how many seasons it will take me to turn this shrub’s blooms to…

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Here and There — and a Few Thoughts about the Distance Between Them

Here and There — and a Few Thoughts about the Distance Between Them

I completely forgot about this post I drafted over two weeks ago, and I hope you won’t mind its belated appearance here. It was such a struggle to write, somehow, that I’m unwilling to simply…

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Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Home and Away and Why I Travel: Guess What?

Want to play a guessing game? I’m easing gradually off my couch, away from the box of kleenexes and the packet of cough drops, moving slowly into the year. Some stock-taking is in order (I…

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