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Opera Night — That’ll Warm up Winter

Opera Night — That’ll Warm up Winter

Honestly, it’s hard to think of a better antidote to cold, dreary, January days than a smoking-hot opera such as Carmen! And the Vancouver Opera Association has done a great job with this production —…

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Bill Gaston’s Sointula, Rebecca Godfrey’s The Torn Skirt and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life

Bill Gaston’s Sointula, Rebecca Godfrey’s The Torn Skirt and Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life

Quite a few posts back, Mardel commented that she was reading a book set in what she realized must be my homeplace, Nanaimo. I was a bit surprised to learn that, as Bill Gaston, while…

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Sunshine in a Cloudy Month

Sunshine in a Cloudy Month

So the numbers are in, and apparently January was at least as bad as I thought it was. A summary in The Vancouver Sun yesterday reported that we only had 6.5 hours of bright sunshine…

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Sunshine, Scarf, and Frozen Brakes

Sunshine, Scarf, and Frozen Brakes

Still foggy and icy here, and I’m thinking we need to have a Wet Chill Factor parallel to the Wind Chill Factor that brings those prairie temperatures so far into the basement. -5 Celsius doesn’t…

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Some Cold, Some Warmth, Much Random . . .

Some Cold, Some Warmth, Much Random . . .

We have been living in freezing fog for over a week now. Yesterday, fortunate enough to take in a reading by the visiting Saanich poet Philip Kevin Paul, I was mesmerized not only by the…

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