Two Female Sleuths and a Cello Suite!

I’ve made the most of no-marking weekends lately — that’s the end of them for a while, so I’m glad I did. Some good escape reading: Alan Bradley’s Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.…

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Random Stuff from a Busy Weekend (Shoes Included)

Fewer and farther between, these posts, with fewer and fewer photos. I hope that will change soon, but given that this is Week 4 of the term, I suspect it will get worse before it…

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Movie Time (and some minor anagnorisis, really!)

It’s been so busy lately — good busy, but still, busy . . . Besides a full slate teaching-wise (my 3rd-year Elegy course especially has me reading furiously to stay well ahead of my students),…

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Good-bye Kate . . .

Another stellar Canadian woman gone, another massive loss to our cultural life. Kate McGarrigle has died. I’m off to listen to Matapedia, and then perhaps to move on to listening to some Martha and some…

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Better than Alright, These Kids!

About eighteen months ago, Thomas over at SundayBestposted a charming clip he’d made of teens busking on a Victoria Street, and he called the post “Spring Break: The Kids Are Alright.” (I tried to link…

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