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  Maybe it’s all the health issues I’ve been having for the past while.  Maybe it’s the fact that the high school reunion will be happening next month (and I’m not going, even though I still live in the same town I grew up in – because I don’t ‘do’ large indoor gatherings – because…

  After a long cool spring, waiting to see what summer would bring, we are now in the Find Out portion of climate change. The past week has been high temps, usually only seen in mid-late August.  Yesterday the wildfire situation ‘exploded’ and the province now has over 300 active wildfires. Buckle up, it’s going…

  I thought long and hard about doing this post, but I decided I am going to put this out there for people’s consideration. Last winter, there was a movement in the entertainment industry to ‘save’ an actor by going to their performance ***wearing a mask*** to help protect them from catching Covid. Given the…

  I thought long and hard about doing this post, but I decided I am going to put this out there for people’s consideration. Last winter, there was a movement in the entertainment industry to ‘save’ an actor by going to their performance ***wearing a mask*** to help protect them from catching Covid. Given the…

  I thought long and hard about doing this post, but I decided I am going to put this out there for people’s consideration. Last winter, there was a movement in the entertainment industry to ‘save’ an actor by going to their performance ***wearing a mask*** to help protect them from catching Covid. Given the…

  If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Last autumn I began to be ‘harassed’ by an anonymous…person…posting comments on this blog urging me to ‘DIE DIE DIE’, repeated endlessly.  When I got the first one I was shocked.  I mean, what had I ever done to this person to want to wish…

  If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Last autumn I began to be ‘harassed’ by an anonymous…person…posting comments on this blog urging me to ‘DIE DIE DIE’, repeated endlessly.  When I got the first one I was shocked.  I mean, what had I ever done to this person to want to wish…

  If it were easy, everyone would be doing it. Last autumn I began to be ‘harassed’ by an anonymous…person…posting comments on this blog urging me to ‘DIE DIE DIE’, repeated endlessly.  When I got the first one I was shocked.  I mean, what had I ever done to this person to want to wish…

  Grief is a funny thing.  You experience a loss, maybe several, maybe a whole lot of losses, and you deal with each one as they come.  You compartmentalize the emotions until the rawness of the loss begins to lessen. But it never really goes away.  It just gets filed away in a dark corner…

  My days of frantically keeping the plates spinning are pretty much over.  These days a typical day will consist of a leisurely morning, a couple of hours of weaving, then puttering, dealing with other things. Lately, that ‘puttering’ has been mostly writing – thinking about, researching, weaving samples where required, then getting words generated.  …