Movie-Watching and Procrastination
I’ve been promising myself for weeks and/or months that I’d catch up on listing movies we/ve seen — failing to do so seems occasionally to result in renting a movie a second time, only realizing…
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A Trio of Girls and Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans
I had hoped to write about Miriam Toews’ The Flying Troutmans, but one of my daughters (who counts Toews’ A Complicated Kindness among her favourites) has borrowed it. Without pages to turn, passages to look…
View PostA Loud Bang and Some Cheering Music
Did you hear that loud bang? That was my summer, coming to a crashing halt. Yesterday I was hanging out in the hammock, reading (admittedly, I was reading a heavily footnoted academic tome, but still).…
View PostBlog Veil and Knitted “jeans” for Nola
Just as a reminder that a blog, while revealing much about a writer’s personality, only gives its readers a partial view of the blogger’s life. For example, my former doctoral supervisor visited Pater and I…
View PostSix Birds and a Sweater
Pater asked me the other day if I thought I was enjoying life as much as I could or should. He’d been asking himself that same question, wondering whether he was appreciating the passing moments…
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