That’s green enough for St. Patrick’s day, don’t you think? That’s a ribena sanguinea ‘White Icicles’ bud getting ready to burst into bloom. I was curious to see when it did that last year, and…
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After I wrote about Randall Maggs’ captivating collection of hockey poems, Night Work, the other day, I asked his publisher, Kitty Lewis (who had left a gracious thank-you comment at the post) if I might…
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Quite a few weeks ago, I e-mailed my friend, Tanis MacDonald, to let her know that I had posted here about her latest collection of poetry, Rue the Day, and I shared some of my…
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At the end of another teaching week, I’m exhausted again but this time with a mountain of marking to get through over the weekend — two of my classes wrote in-class essays this week so…
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I always, always, always have a book in my purse for filling up all those waiting minutes during the day and have done so for as far back as I can remember. It’s difficult for…
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