The City Mouse

I promised that my next post would tell you where we ate our pre-opera dinner last Saturday in Vancouver, and I do like to keep a promise, so let me recommend to you the fine…

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Opera: A Love Story

After the opera-blogging I did over the last two VOA seasons, I’ll admit it’s been a relief, this month and last, simply to settle in next to my husband and enjoy the opera. But even…

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Gone Shopping (and to the Opera, and Dinner, and . . . )

I’m in Vancouver for the weekend and too busy to blog between pre-opera dinner, opera, post-opera drinks, Sunday morning sleeping-in (’til 10!! and I rarely sleep past 6:30!), running the seawall, shopping (some early Christmas…

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Visible at the Opera

Besides being distracted from some family troubles by a park visit with a very active pre-schooler, Paul and I had the great pleasure of attending West Side Story, the first offering of Vancouver Opera’s 2011-12 season. We’ve…

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Doing My Best . . .

I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment. That expression “A mother is only as happy as her least happy child” is quite true, and I’m hurting for one of mine at the moment. Enough…

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Copyright

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