Determined to Relax! Working at it! Playing Too!

I can find it tough to slow down, but I’ve given myself an assignment: four days without doing anything because I feel I have to; take time to figure out what I want; and above…

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Summer Morning

I woke too early again this morning. Managed to stay in bed ’til 5:15, but uh-unh,sleep wasn’t coming back. Slipped on a t-shirt and pyjama bottoms, barefoot down the stairs, let the cat in and…

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Antonia Fraser’s Must You Go?

After I’ve finished a book, I don’t put it back on the shelf until I’ve registered something about it on this reading blog. Occasionally I manage to write several hundred words of response, analysis, perhaps…

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Away . . . and Back

Back home after a week away — the most “summery” week of the year (so far), so I’m relieved the weather didn’t storm off in a huff (it threatened).  Slayage (the Joss Whedon-focused conference I…

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Summer here, Summer there, Conflicts . . . . .

I’m practising my presentation one more time and then will be heading back out to UBC for another day of lively and fascinating discussions about the works of Joss Whedon, here at Slayage 5, an…

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