Momma’sMater’s got a brand new bag!

My latest coup de foudre. Pretty much finished my window-shopping on Saturday, ready to head back to the apartment, I decided to enter the slightly-intimidating but beautifully intriguing shop I’d noticed on Alberni, just off…

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Oh, what a lucky woman she was (with apologies to Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

Oh, I have so much to show you and tell you, and I know I promised to do Mardel’s meme, but let me just show you a few photos for now and tomorrow, when I…

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(Not Just) Another Night at the Opera

Added March 16th, thanks to Ling Chan, Assistant to Managing Director for VOA: The manga is drawn by artist Fiona Meng. Rigoletto pictures should be credited to photographer Tim Matheson and the pictures for the…

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Sunshine in a Cloudy Month

So the numbers are in, and apparently January was at least as bad as I thought it was. A summary in The Vancouver Sun yesterday reported that we only had 6.5 hours of bright sunshine…

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Stuck in the Middle With . . . Worry and Guilt!

We spotted this charmingly cheery graffiti near some guerrilla gardening along the railroad tracks not far from Vancouver’s Granville Island back in November, the day before Nola was born actually. Cheery seems just the ticket…

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