I’m a bit chagrined to remember my first thoughts on waking this morning — running through the day’s itinerary, I groaned at the thought of my regularly scheduled Wednesday run and felt rather put-upon at…
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When I was home yesterday, the extraordinary noises the California sea lions were making out in our bay lured me outside with my little camera to try to capture the soundscape. The visual quality of…
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Home sick today, mostly walloped by the emotions stirred up by a celebration of my mother-in-law’s life, held yesterday in our little Vancouver apartment. A very informal, but very heartfelt memorial, all of our children…
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1. The summer before last, Paul and I watched this film en français, in a great little repertory cinema in Bordeaux. We grasped enough to know it was powerful, very moving, but we knew we’d…
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Not sure if it’s the increased distance I’ve been running lately (40km a week, with a long run on Saturday of 20+), or the adjustment to the term’s schedule, or the impatience for retirement, now…
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