Makes the Season Bright….or How to make Christmas shopping palatable

Home on the island again, after a ferry ride that included an extended orca sighting. A pod swam alongside us, with a few lovely arcing breaches to show off dramatic black and white markings. Oohs…

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More Christmas Blogging. . . Entertaining, shopping, noshing

Pre-Christmas-shopping fortification, exquisite French breakfast pastries and coffee at Thierrry, a precious quiet moment with Pater… If my blog stats are any indication, the busy-ness of the season is already taking readers from the screen…

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Spirit of Christmas Past

I wrote this post four years ago, when Nola was just two but already had much to teach us about how to enjoy the joys of the season. I realize, as I wind up my…

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Drama, without Disaster, A Worrier Reports . . .

Here’s a little video I made yesterday morning, when I couldn’t get to work because the storm shut down our little ferry. While it was at it, it tore up a few docks, smashed a…

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Is Nana Wearing out her Welcome?

  It’s definitely been all about the grandmas round here, whether mine or my children’s or my own doting Nana self sharing photos and anecdotes. I did offer up a little What I Wore the…

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