East Van, Baby, That’s My ‘Hood

 The promised walk through my neighbourhood, one day last week as my iPhone counted the steps toward the 10,000 daily steps of my March fitness challenge.  We had a series of several days that began…

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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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Retirement Move, Interrupted. . . . Or, After Covid, Portugal.. .

I can’t remember how or when I twigged to an impending retirement move by a frequent reader/commenter, here. But it didn’t take long for that move, in all its complexities and joys and losses and…

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Dusting off the Archives . . . Blast from the Past

Thanks for the thoughtful and thought-provoking comments in response to my last post. I’m not done with this topic (of responsible consumerism in all its complications) yet, and I hope to chat about it with…

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Urban Condo Life — Year Four?!

October 1st! Not only have we begun the last quarter of a year which — is it just me? — seems to have only just begun. But Pater and I have also just begun the…

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