City Fun — Vancouver!
I have to admit that the last thing we really wanted to do on New Year’s Day was leave the comforts of the woodstove in our island home to navigate through icy waters (check out…
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The Space Between the Years — Is that Change I see on the Horizon?
So here we are, poised on the brink, ready to see the Old Year out and ring in the New. Good-bye 2015. . . . I took these photos from our beachfront terrace over the…
View PostMerry Christmas on a (just hectic enough) Christmas Eve
Found this treasure when sorting through drawers last week: a Nativity scene drawn by my daughter when she was 5. Such fun to show it to her daughter! 7:36 AM on Christmas Eve. One…
View PostPlaying Hooky as Christmas Approaches . . .
Another passage from Karl Olve Knausgaard’s A Man in Love (the 2nd volume of his My Struggle series) illustrates some of that gradual fading we observe of the intensity of a time away from home, the remembered…
View PostPlanning Visits to Art Exhibitions in Paris, e.g. Vigée Le Brun at Grand Palais
Lovely as serendipity can be (I’ve also written about Serendipity in travel-planning here), we don’t rely completely on its charms when we travel. Generally, I scope out can’t-miss exhibitions or concerts before we fly; sometimes,…
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