Garden Delights and Running News

Perhaps eight, maybe ten years ago, I commented to a colleague who also gardens that I really loved a small tree, just below our department’s building, one that managed to be festooned with both white…

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Minor Triumphs and Tribulations — Must They Always Travel in Tandem?!

My intention was to post today about my lovely weekend visit with Daughter #3 and our visit to the spa. Instead, I spent the day writing a conference paper proposal. I’d decided earlier that I…

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What I Wore. . . and a Minor Marital Spat

I was just a bit pissed off with Pater Friday morning, and he was amused enough about it to piss me off just a bit more and good-natured enough about it to snap the weekly…

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Opera Knitting

Isn’t this just the best picture? Wish I’d taken it, but I foundit on Vancouver Opera’s Facebook page. Members of the chorus knitting away backstage during Lillian Alling . . . I haven’t mentioned my…

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Ethel Wilson: Love and Salt Water

The only reason I’m not further behind (right now only about four titles, I think) in this reading log is that I’m not finding much more time to read than I am to write. But…

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Copyright

Unless otherwise stated, all words and photographs in this blog are my own. If you wish to use any of them, please give me credit for my work. And it should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: Do not publish entire posts as your own. I will take the necessary action to stop such theft. Thanks.