Between Here and There

You are such good guessers! Yes, we’re heading to San Francisco this morning and should be in transit by the time you read this — unless the snow Vancouver’s expecting tonight slows things down at…

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Pleasures of the Season — Travel Included . . .

Besides the sunshine and the cold, but gorgeous, blue skies, there’s much to please in winter here right now — I’ve mentioned before that I planted the garden partially to conquer the drears of the…

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2010 Reading List

In case it’s not obvious, clicking on the book titles will bring you to my post mentioning or responding to the book, except in the case of the unblogged titles at the end of the…

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Happy New Year

The days around Christmas were marked around here by an absolutely silly amount of rainfall — it just kept pounding down, grey and soggy. Then came stormy winds, still accompanied with bursts of rain, but…

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Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore’s short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here” has long been one of my favourite stories, so when her new novel was published, I was eager to read it. It doesn’t…

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Copyright

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