We were in Vancouver for a few days taking it easy. We watched DVDs: Away From Her — beautiful little movie if quite sad, with a memorable performance by Julie Christie; and The Nanny Diaries,…
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Here are some pictures from our evening with my mom at the Van Dusen Gardens’ Festival of Lights last week. After battling our way across town and back to pick mom up in Burnaby, we…
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Some guerrilla decorating happened in my neighbourhood last week, an annual attack perpetrated by someone with a generous heart, a love of fun, and an apparently unending supply of ornaments. None of our trees were…
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If you can imagine a drowned rat, you’ll have a good idea what I looked like this morning when I got back from my run: it was cold, grey, and very wet, but since I’m…
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well, I might be waiting apprehensively for my writing to show upelsewhere in the blogosphere and I might have a huge stack of exams to mark, but I am doing those things in the comforts…
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