Remembering . . . a Barcelona moment

Do you scroll through files of travel photos, trying to remember where you were, what you were doing that day, why you wanted to capture an image? Especially when so many of our memories have…

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Anniversary Blooms and Belly Buttons

A year ago today, my Mother left us to our memories of her. Some of those memories bloom in my garden — so many plants she brought here from her own. The omphalodes cappadocica in…

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Ah, the curls of my youth . . .

Enough hemming and hawing. Here’s another Curlylocks post . . . A commenter on this post (thanks Brenda!) asked me what products I use to manage my extroverted  hair. . . and perhaps answering this question might…

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Connections, Blog Crossings, Neighbourhoods. . .

An odd little thing to miss, perhaps, but something that we’ll never have on our little island is the sound of a car pulling into our driveway. We’ve been here for almost 20 years now,…

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Remembering and Making Memories at Christmas

 Just a year ago . . . my beautiful sister, pictured above, drove my Mother downtown to join our twig of the family tree–myself, Mom’s oldest daughter, with Paul, her son-in-law; our four children, her…

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