one more thing before I go

Before I go, I thought I’d show you the shoes I’m packing for hitting the city. After all, Manolo has “Whose Shoes Wednesday,” so why can’t I give you “My Shoes Wednesday.” (And further dispel…

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hanging onto the sunshine

I look out my window towards Vancouver to see a thin sliver of possible sunshine, but not much above the horizon is a solid mass of darkly-hovering cloud. The 5-day forecast is for drizzle, showers,…

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That’s my boy. . .

My son commented on the phone the other evening that he’d read my latest blog post and thought it was cool that we were doing the 100-mile diet. I reminded him that what I’d said…

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More sun! More waves! More sand!

I’m paraphrasing Zoom at Sea, a wonderful children’s book by Tim Wynne-Jones. I can’t look up the exact quotation ’cause the book’s long gone to the bookshelves of my grown-up daughter, but I think I’m…

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well, you can’t knit shoes . . .

but I’m going to show you some anyway. I thought, for a change of pace, I’m going to occasionally give you something from my shoe wardrobe, and tell you a bit of their history. And…

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