let it (not) snow!

This is what I got to wear today! Moccasins and warm hand-knit socks and leggings and big comfy, hand-knit, lambswool-angora sweater! Because today got called a snow day! While there’s not a flake of snow…

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More on O’Keeffe

I remember my mom reading biographies regularly when I was growing up — she always had a stack of library books by her bed, just as I do, and she enforced an “afternoon naptime” for…

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Books I Read in 2007

In the interests of good-blog-housekeeping and future retrieval, I thought I’d transfer my list of Recently Read Books into a single post for 2007. Again, sorry to subscribers for clogging up your mailbox with a…

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Scenes from a lovely day

I’m going to show you a few scenes from our very happy Christmas Day. First, in case you’re interested, the Christmas Eve tourtière was fabulous — we got home from Victoria about 6, I rolled…

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Quick-and-dirty book review — Mister Pip

For weeks and weeks now, I’ve had both Dickens’ Great Expectations and Lloyd Jones’ Mister Pip stacked by my monitor as a reminder to quickly summarize, for my blog, my response to the latter. And…

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