Too Short?

The facial was lovely — only the good stuff, none of the squeezing! — and my toes are back in shape for those last few weeks when there’s still a slight chance of baring them.…

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Taking Care of Me . . .

While there are many joys and worthwhile challenges involved in teaching first-year students, a steady diet of them (three sections, 28 students each PLUS an 8-hour weekly gig working one-on-one in the Writing Centre!) can…

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Boys’ Club

It’s a couple of weeks since I took these photos of my new vest in action. Then today Karen, Of a Certain Age,posted about pulling menswear looks into real life, and I thought it was…

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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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Bring it on, Fall!

I took the photo above several weeks ago, when the scene struck me as indicative of summer’s end, fall’s arrival, even though we were not there yet. The pleasure boaters were still motoring leisurely through…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.