A Tale of Two City .. . Pagodas

 I know some of you want to see photos of me in my Mother-of-the-Bride gear. Can you tell I’m stalling on this issue?  Here’s the thing: we won’t get the professional photographer’s work for a…

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Here Comes the Br. . .

You know what? Let’s just change the subject, shall we? My friends’ visit, plus the supportive, encouraging, sympatheticcomments from so many readers has me ready to move on. And I had promised to show you…

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Shadows to Sunshine — thank you all!

Thank you so much for your generous, supportive response to yesterday’s post. Your demonstration of the meaningful community which surrounds my blog has greatly lessened my concerns about having it reproduced elsewhere. While I will,…

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You read it here first . . . It could happen to you!

Yesterday morning, I accidentally discovered something that almost caused me to shut down my blog. Instead, I spent the day thinking and feeling a bit ill and talking to Pater and getting some perspective, and,…

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Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater . . .

I just can’t do it. While I almost always make myself soldier on to the end of a novel, I’ve had to abandon two in the last few months. The first was the latest instalment…

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