A Summer Place. . . .
All is going well here, but between classes and meetings and markings and early-morning runs and collapsing in front of Homeland or The Good Wife at the end of the day . . . Not…
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Another Monday, transitions
Waiting at the top of the parkade ramp for the gate to close behind me, I noted how dark it was, still, at 5:25. In theory, my decision to take an early ferry back Monday…
View PostWhat’s Navy and Gold and Feeling very Busy . . .
Classes are going well, so far. I generally enjoy the first few weeks, the honeymoon stage, I sometimes call it, before they get their first assignments marked, returned… A late October event I’m responsible for…
View PostTurning over that September Leaf — New Routines. . . .
Today, the first day back to school, I defiantly pulled on my white jeans — gasp! post-Labour-Day white — and quickly found a good reason for the rule. Dirt roads + rain + bicycle =…
View PostDonna Leon’s About Face
Only one chapter into Donna Leon’s About Face, and already I’d found two sentences worth remarking First, for the brilliantly sly balancing of its second (post-semi-colon) independent clause: “He recognized the Conte’s lawyer and his…
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