Sketching, From Paris to Vancouver, Croissants to Chicken Vegetable Soup . . .

In that Paris Sketchbook workshop, we filled pages with croissants. Back home in Vancouver, I’m picking up the play as I sketch soup ingredients.

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Sketching up Thanksgiving!

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all of you and a special thank you to all my readers and commenters for your support and encouragement. Click through to read more — including a recipe for a hearty side dish which can also work as a vegetarian meal on its own.

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Six Sicilian Things Saturday

A Five Things Friday post that somehow turned into Six Things Saturday. And since readers have been curious about my time at a Sketching Workshop in the Sicilian countryside. . . I give you Six Sicilian Things this Saturday. . . A little weekend diversion. Hope you enjoy!

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Friday Five as I “Hold Space”. . . .

A Friday Five post as I continue to think about what I want to write here.  I’ve always had nigglings of discomfort about the privilege my blog represents and my self-consciousness about that is greater…

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In the Pink, But Not in Paris. . . .

Hello! We’re just out of a long weekend here, one which included my birthday, so I’m catching up this morning with homework for my Italian class (Zooming begins at 9:30: I’d better hurry). . .…

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