like my new hat?

Want to see my new hat? I bought it at the new Holt’s store in Vancouver last week, with my daughter Megan’s approval (she says it “opens up” my face). I wasn’t seriously looking for…

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hanging onto the sunshine

I look out my window towards Vancouver to see a thin sliver of possible sunshine, but not much above the horizon is a solid mass of darkly-hovering cloud. The 5-day forecast is for drizzle, showers,…

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More sun! More waves! More sand!

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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well, you can’t knit shoes . . .

but I’m going to show you some anyway. I thought, for a change of pace, I’m going to occasionally give you something from my shoe wardrobe, and tell you a bit of their history. And…

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Oh Deer, Nudity! Quick, Cover up with a Lacy Cardigan!

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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