Reading Laurie Ricou’s Salal: Listening for the Northwest Understory, I find this quotation from poet and essayist Kim Stafford’s book The Muses Among Us: “coherence is born of random abundance” (31). Random abundance! I love…
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This is what I got to wear today! Moccasins and warm hand-knit socks and leggings and big comfy, hand-knit, lambswool-angora sweater! Because today got called a snow day! While there’s not a flake of snow…
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I remember my mom reading biographies regularly when I was growing up — she always had a stack of library books by her bed, just as I do, and she enforced an “afternoon naptime” for…
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In the interests of good-blog-housekeeping and future retrieval, I thought I’d transfer my list of Recently Read Books into a single post for 2007. Again, sorry to subscribers for clogging up your mailbox with a…
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I’m going to show you a few scenes from our very happy Christmas Day. First, in case you’re interested, the Christmas Eve tourtière was fabulous — we got home from Victoria about 6, I rolled…
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