Working to the Light

Still working to find the happy. And it’s here, in small doses, if I look hard. Light on the horizon and all that. Evidence that even in winter there will be life — these Mahonia…

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Weekend Good Stuff

Of course, it’s notall sadness all weekend around here. Friday night, for example, I was very pleased to arrive home from work and find these little beauties sitting on a plate: Basil Ricotta Gnocchi. To…

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Autumn comes before Winter, Yes it does . . .

Although I don’t want to dwell on it too much, because it impinges on others’ privacy, I’ve been grappling with some intense, if occasional, sadness lately, sadness that seems to hit regularly on weekends when…

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Stormy Weather and Sunny Afternoons

Last night’s 70-kilometre/hour winds tested the tarping system covering our roof. Paul was out there in the afternoon, re-attaching the tarp in various spots where the winds had torn it away, and there were several…

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Opera Continues . . . and some What I Wore

The Vancouver Opera Blog posted this photo of my fellow bloggers and me at last Saturday’s World Premiere of Lillian Alling. Great news: Social Media Manager Ling Chan asked me to join them for the…

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