Lovely Lazy Weekend

 I’ve had a lovely weekend, a good portion having been spent right here in my leather armchair, reading a yummy mystery novel (Paula Hawkins’ Girl on a Train), shamelessly ignoring the books I have to…

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And Paris Also Cures the February Blues . . .

 Although my mood did lift yesterday (and I have to say I ended up facilitating two very good classes!), it’s still grey and wet here, and I have to go to a meeting late afternoon…

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Oh February . . . Turquoise against the Blues

 Oddly, since this is a short week for us (Monday was a stat holiday here in BC), my days have been dragging. Fatigue (a touch of winter melancholy or a result of amped-up running mileage?)…

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Sartorial Inspiration and its Down-to-Earth (Thud!) Translation. . .

Last week, Duchesse over at Passage des Perles blogged about this photo recently posted on Scott Schumann’s Sartorialist. Duchesse parsed the look to explain ways that we might get fresh looks from our wardrobe. She…

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Soup and Family and Facebook

Around the time my Mom died, two cousins I’d barely got to know set up a Facebook page for the extended family, published a family history going back several hundred years to our French and…

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