East Van, Baby, That’s My ‘Hood

 The promised walk through my neighbourhood, one day last week as my iPhone counted the steps toward the 10,000 daily steps of my March fitness challenge.  We had a series of several days that began…

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Bordeaux Beauty Remembered — Street Art and Slowing Down and Other Sundry Messages

My puttering toward creative traction this week (see previous post) has included sorting through the “random abundance” of digital photos in my files (“ridiculous abundance” might be a more fitting description).  I was doing this…

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October: Relief and Contentment in the Rainy City. . .

I’m just going to chat at you this morning, and hope that you won’t mind a bit of rambling. We had a busy weekend with Italian class and visiting friends; Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia was, literally,…

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Walkin’ on Sunshine. . . and Don’t It Feel Good!

(With thanks to Katrina and the Waves for my title . . . and apologies to you if you’re now stuck with an earworm for the day. . . ) I’m fiddling a bit with…

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Piping Up From My (Temporary) Sick Bed — With Cheery Mural Photos

 Regular programming is temporarily suspended while blogger is laid low by fever, sneezing, coughing, and all-round use of copious paper tissues. Ginger tea and hot lemon-and-honey and steaming bowls of chicken soup also feature in…

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