Much as we complain about grey, rainy days (ha! more like weeks, no, months!) on the West Coast of Canada, we generally acknowledge our good fortune in wonderful springs that begin unfolding their treasures for…
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Reading Break here, and while I have a big stack of marking to work through, some proposals to write up, several hours of meetings to attend, and some reading-and-thinking-ahead prep to do, I don’t have…
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Sigh! Here I am again, playing catch-up. Penelope Lively’s Family Album. Incisive sketch of a family from numerous perspectives. A technique that’s been often used, of course, but Lively is a master and it’s marvellous…
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Playing tourist last weekend in Vancouver, along with the thousands and thousands of Olympic visitors, I finally took some photos of this sculpture which appeared at English Bay in 2009 as part of Vancouver Biennale.…
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As I mentioned last post, we had fun this weekend playing tourist and observing all the visitors to a city I’ve always known. Friday evening we wandered among the crowd for a while, watching the…
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