Jet-Lagged, But Home . . .

On Saturday, I was knitting a glove in Paris. And I’m finishing its mate at home now, settling back into a comforting domesticity after five weeks of playing the vagabond.

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Home From Away. . .

Sorry for the “radio silence,” but we were finally able to visit our son’s family on Vancouver Island. Ten months since our last visit .  .  . . All the feels, as the kids say …

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Messy Desk, Messy Mind? And Changes, Ahead and Behind

Arriving at my desk this morning with my cuppa, I couldn’t help but be struck by how much it resembles my messy mind of the moment. . . You will be relieved to know that…

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Painting Our Way into a (Quiet Reading) Corner

Can you believe that we’re coming up to five years of city life? Truly, it seems just yesterday — and/but also another lifetime — that I was in my February garden and on the beach…

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On the Daily, Sketches from My Covid Journal. . .

I hope you all saw my last post, about a reader’s adventurous plans for an ex-pat retirement in Portugal. I’ve always daydreamed about living in Europe for a year or so, and Carol’s description of…

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