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A Little Navy Dress and Some Thoughts about Friendship

A Little Navy Dress and Some Thoughts about Friendship

 For an opera as splendid as Turandot, especially when produced this sumptuously, one really should dress up a bit. But the practicalities of walking to the Skytrain stop through Saturday night’s significant rainfall couldn’t be…

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What I’m Wearing: To Please Myself

What I’m Wearing: To Please Myself

 The post I had planned for this morning wasn’t really an “outfit post.” Instead, I was using the playful exhortation on this t-shirt as an entry-point to tell you about my efforts lately to figure…

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Black and Light and Paris. . . and an Eclipse for Good Measure. . .

Black and Light and Paris. . . and an Eclipse for Good Measure. . .

Having just booked a(nother) flight to Paris later this year (actual destination being a b-sitting gig near Rome, but Vancouver-Rome Direct, Non-Stop, not being a possibility). . . having just booked that last week, booked…

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My Sweatshirt from Paris, as worn to Photograph More Beach

My Sweatshirt from Paris, as worn to Photograph More Beach

 I bought this sweatshirt (by Leon and Harper, the label whispers Hello I Love You Can You Tell Me Your Name each time I shrug my head through it) in Paris last month (total coup…

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Summer Fun! Two Ways to Get/Stay Fit in the City

Summer Fun! Two Ways to Get/Stay Fit in the City

 Excuse the title, my tongue-in-cheek effort to follow Bloglovin’s advice about Attracting More Followers. The stock advice always seems to include exclamation marks and How-to and Numbers. . What’s really going on here is that…

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